نتایج جستجو برای: acute bacterial meningitis

تعداد نتایج: 702895  

Esmat Khajehpour, Hassan Khajehpour Mahdi Eftekhari Mehrdad Farokhnia, Mostafa Langarizadeh

Introduction Bacterial meningitis is a known infectious disease which occurs at early ages and should be promptly diagnosed and treated. Bacterial and aseptic meningitis are hard to be distinguished. Therefore, physicians should be highly informed and experienced in this area. The main aim of this study was to suggest a system for distinguishing between bacterial and aseptic meningitis, using f...

2015
Janni L. Sporrborn Gertrud B. Knudsen Mette Sølling Karina Seierøe Annette Farre Bjarne Ø. Lindhardt Thomas Benfield Christian T. Brandt

BACKGROUND Experimental studies suggest that changes in brain ventricle size are key events in bacterial meningitis. This study investigated the relationship between ventricle size, clinical condition and risk of poor outcome in patients with bacterial meningitis. METHODS Adult patients diagnosed with bacterial meningitis admitted to two departments of infectious diseases from 2003 through 20...

Journal: :medical journal of islamic republic of iran 0
ali zamani pediatric department, vali-asr hospital, valises reproductive health research center, tehran, i.r. iran. fatemeh zamani

background : meningitis is more common during the neonatal period than other periods of life and has a prevalence of one in 1000 live births. the similarity of its clinical manifestations with other infectious diseases makes it difficult to diagnose. the aim of the current study was to determine the relationship between age, sex, clinical signs and symptoms and laboratory test results of newbor...

Journal: :The Turkish journal of pediatrics 2015
Ayşe Kaman Türkan Aydın-Teke Fatma Nur Öz Gülsüm İclal Bayhan Özge Metin Zeynep Gökçe Gayretli-Aydın Gönül Tanır

Streptococcus pneumoniae is a leading cause of bacterial meningitis in children. It is also responsible for bacteremia, sepsis, pneumonia, sinusitis and acute otitis media in young children worldwide. The serotypes included in the 7-valent conjugated pneumococcal vaccine (PCV7)-1, 5, 6A, 6B, 14, 19F, 23F-are those most commonly responsible for invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) globally. Unvac...

Journal: :Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz 2008
Mari Tuyama Renata F Boente Maria C Rebelo Ricardo P Igreja David E Barroso

Most patients with acute suppurative meningitis are otherwise healthy individuals with regard to immune mechanisms against invasive bacterial disease. This medical emergency is among the most dramatic and potentially ravaging diseases that affect humans, particularly young children. The illness often strikes suddenly, and can either result in death or leave the survivors with significant neurol...

2014
Yong-Juan Liu Li-Hua Shao Qian Wang Jian Zhang Rui-Ping Ma Hai-Hong Liu Xiao-Meng Dong Li-Xian Ma

Nosocomial bacterial meningitis requires timely treatment, but what is difficult is the prompt and accurate diagnosis of this disease. The aim of this study was to assess the potential role of decoy receptor 3 (DcR3) levels in the differentiation of bacterial meningitis from non-bacterial meningitis. A total of 123 patients were recruited in this study, among them 80 patients being with bacteri...

M KEYHANI,

Despite recent innovations in the laboratory diagnosis of bacterial from nonbacterial meningitis, solid data-necessary for early determination of bacterial meningitis (BM) before organism growth in the culture medium-are missing. Therefore cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) lactate levels were evaluated as a possible means of differentiating the two clinical entities. This was a retrospective study....

Journal: :JPMA. The Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association 2014
Jabeen Fayyaz Arshalooz Rehman Akhter Hamid Munawar Khursheed Nukhba Zia Asher Feroze Uzma Rahim Khan

OBJECTIVE To determine the role of computed tomography scan in children presenting to emergency department with symptoms and signs of suspected acute bacterial meningitis. METHODS The retrospective analysis was done on children who were admitted through the Emergency Department at Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, from September 2009 to September 2011 with the diagnosis of acute bacteria...

Journal: :The Indian journal of medical research 2009
P Chakrabarti B K Das Arti Kapil

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES The diagnosis of bacterial meningitis remains a challenge to the clinician because of its rapid lethal course lacking the consistency to particular clinical signs and symptoms. Moreover, in many clinical settings use of rampant and short course antibiotic therapy prior to lumbar puncture reduces the chance of isolation of bacteria in CSF culture making the diagnosis diff...

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