introduction: leakage of cerebrospinal fluid in the skull base may be accompanied with recurrent meningitis. the site of leakage may either be anterior (in the nose and paranasal sinuses) or posterior (in the temporal bone). various imaging techniques can be used to precisely locate the point of leakage but despite all the advances in imaging techniques there are still some rare cases in which ...

recurrent bacterial meningitis is not a common disease and makes physicians seek underlying predisposing factors which can result from anatomic anomalies or immunodeficiency. in this paper we present a boy with recurrent bacterial meningitis with the history of trauma and sensorineural hearing loss. mondini dysplasia was demonstrated with computed homographic scans (ct-scan) of temporal bones.

Introduction: Congenital anomalies of the cochlea and labyrinth can be associated with meningitis and varying degrees of hearing loss or deafness. Despite antibiotics, meningitis remains a life threatening complication.   Case Report: We report a case of recurrent meningitis following episodes of otitis media in a cochlear implantee child with bilateral vestibulocochlear malformation, due to f...

introduction: congenital anomalies of the cochlea and labyrinth can be associated with meningitis and varying degrees of hearing loss or deafness. despite antibiotics, meningitis remains a life threatening complication.   case report: we report a case of recurrent meningitis following episodes of otitis media in a cochlear implantee child with bilateral vestibulocochlear malformation, due to fi...

Recurrent attacks of bacterial meningitis usually follow in the wake of cranial trauma(l). However, other important factors like sinusitis, mastoiditis, congenital dermal sinuses(2-5) and immunological causes related to humoral immunity and the complement system(6) are also important. Recurrent bouts of meningitis may also be seen with intracranial dermoids(7). The published reports on recurren...

Recurrent meningitis is an uncommon life-threatening condition. Here, the case of a 6-year-old boy is reported who had two episodes of meningitis with an IgG3 subclass deficiency. The boy had aseptic meningitis at the age of 3 years, followed by bacterial meningitis at the age of 4 years. Primary immunoglobulin deficiencies are a group of disorders associated with an increased incidence and/or ...

OBJECTIVE To review the ages of patients with recurrent herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) meningitis. DESIGN Case report and literature review back to 1970. SETTING Referral Veterans Affairs hospital. RESULTS Our patient developed his first episode of recurrent HSV-2 meningitis at 78 years of age, 57 years after his only episode of genital herpes simplex infection. Of 223 patients in th...

INTRODUCTION Cases of idiopathic recurrent benign aseptic meningitis were first described by Mollaret. Today, herpes simplex virus (HSV) is considered the cause of most cases of Mollaret's meningitis. CASE REPORT A 40-year-old male was referred to our genitourinary medicine clinic with recurrent genital herpetic lesions. He had HSV-2-positive genital ulcers 8 years earlier. One year after the...