Abscesses secondary to pituitary adenoma are rare. The common clinical manifestations often encountered headaches, meningismus, and visual disturbances. Hemiplegia as its revealing sign is uncommon. To the best of our knowledge, this second reported case a abscess with focal neurological deficit half-sided body. We report 52-year-old woman successfully treated by stereotactic evacuation inside ...

• Streptococcus intermedius is a known cause of brain abscesses. Concurrent disseminated CNS infections in and spinal column rare. Imaging revealing either or abscesses may prompt evaluation other anatomical sites. A male patient his thirties presented to the hospital with meningismus altered mental status. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis confirmed meningitis, but no microorganisms were iden...

Zusammenfassung In diesem Artikel geben wir ein Überblick über das Management von bewusstseinsgestörten Kindern. Die Diagnostik muss rasch erfolgen, um behandelbare Ätiologien zu identifizieren und neurologische Folgeschäden möglichst minimieren. Differenzialdiagnose ist umfangreich. Der Kurzbefund umfasst die Quantifizierung der Bewusstseinsstörung mittels Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS), Prüfung Aug...

Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada syndrome (VKH) is a bilateral intraocular granulomatous panuveitis which is frequently associated with systemic manifestations such as meningismus, tinnitus, poliosis and vitiligo of autoimmune aetiology. Headache by itself, does not fulfill the diagnostic criteria and is insufficient for the diagnosis. A 22-year-old male presented with a 10 day history of headache, followe...

A previously well, nine-month-old, Canadian-born, Caucasian infant presented with one month history of cough, irritability, and poor weight gain. Her past medical history was significant for open-heart surgery at age four months, with repair of a ventricular septal defect, closure of an atrial septal defect, and ligation of patent ductus arteriosus. There were no operative complications. Her de...

The purpose of the present work was to inform about the first case of meningitis associated to the bacteria Alcaligenes xylosoxidans in a patient with HIV/AIDS. The patient was a 46-year-old male, with the antecedent of have been diagnosed for HIV/ AIDS, who attended in the Hospital Universitario de Colima, Mexico, with fever, shock and meningismus. The study of the cerebrospinal fluid showed p...