Acute Bacterial Meningitis
Clinical profile, bacterial profile and outcomes of acute bacterial meningitis in a tertiary care hospital– one year study
... A prospective cross-sectional study was conducted in Department of General Medicine at Narayana Medical College and Hospital, a tertiary care hospital. All the subjects suspected with acute bacterial ...
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Indicators of Acute Bacterial Meningitis in Children at a Rural Kenyan District Hospital
... Objective. Acute bacterial meningitis re- mains an important cause of death and neurologic se- quelae in African ...childhood meningitis are identified at first assessment in hospitals in this ...
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Fluid therapy for acute bacterial meningitis
... of acute disease, and adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes (Feigin ...from acute bacterial meningitis (Conner 1980; Dodge 1965; Williams 1964), and it has been suggested that inappro- priately ...
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Osmotic therapies added to antibiotics for acute bacterial meningitis (Review)
... in acute brain trauma (BTF 2000) and their use has been postulated in other forms of acute brain injury, particularly stroke (Bereczki 2010; Yu 1992; Yu 1993) and cerebral malaria (Namutangula 2007; ...
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ACUTE BACTERIAL MENINGITIS IN PATIENTS ADMITTED TO THE CHILDREN HOSPITAL IN DAMASCUS, SYRIA
... of acute bacterial meningitis (ABM) for each age group, the most common pathogens responsible for it and the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis of ABM ...with acute bacterial ...of ...
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Arterial cerebrovascular complications in 94 adults with acute bacterial meningitis
... The development of cerebrovascular alterations is an important intracranial complication in acute bacterial meningitis and is associated with poor outcome [1]. Arterial cerebrovascular complications ...
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Osmotic therapies added to antibiotics for acute bacterial meningitis
... in acute brain trauma (BTF 2000), and their use has been postulated in other forms of acute brain injury, particularly stroke (Bereczki 2007; Yu 1992; Yu 1993) and cerebral malaria (Namutangula 2007; ...
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Sequelae of Acute Bacterial Meningitis in Children Treated for Seven Days
... Sequelae of Acute Bacterial Meningitis in Children Treated for Seven Days. http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/78/1/21[r] ...
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Otoacoustic Emissions as a Screening Test for Hearing Impairment in Children Recovering From Acute Bacterial Meningitis
... The aim of this study was to determine whether OAEs could be used as a predischarge screening test for hearing loss in children recovering from acute bacterial meningitis. To be clinically useful, ...
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Hospitalized Adults with Acute Bacterial Meningitis: Etiology and Antimicrobial Susceptibility Profiles
... membranes. Acute bacterial meningitis is a major worldwide lethal health problem, characterized by potentially devastating and the rapid progression of symptoms effects including fever, headache, ...
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Emerging pathogen, bacterial profile and sensitivity pattern of acute bacterial meningitis in a Tertiary care centre, New Delhi, India
... cause acute bacterial meningitis varies with time, geography and patients’ ...of meningitis are not always reliable, a laboratory support is imperative, to achieve an early diagnosis and ...
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Lipocalin 2 in cerebrospinal fluid as a marker of acute bacterial meningitis
... Acute bacterial meningitis (ABM) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality ...is acute viral meningitis (AVM) that does not require antibiotics and are usually of better ...
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The spectrum of acute bacterial meningitis in elderly patients
... Our study shows that elderly patients are at much higher risk of developing ABM than younger adults. We also observed a change in the etiology of the disease, Neisseria meningitidis ranked first for younger patients, ...
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DEXAMETHASONE IN THE TREATMENT OF ACUTE BACTERIAL MENINGITIS: THE EFFECT OF STUDY DESIGN ON THE INTERPRETATION OF RESULTS
... Low doses of dexamethasone (4.8 mg per meter squared of body area per day) were compared to a placebo as an adjunct to a stan- dardized antimicrobial treatment of acute bacterial meningi[r] ...
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Clinical decision rules for acute bacterial meningitis: current insights
... serum PCT for identifying BM depends on the population selected and the method of selecting the marker thresh- old. In these varied studies, this precision is impaired in the case of atypical germ-induced ...
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ACUTE BACTERIAL MENINGITIS IN CHILDREN
... whom no organism could be identified on initial smear were placed in the "unknown" group; if they were responding well when an organism was later identified by [r] ...
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Meningitis registry of hospitalized cases in children: epidemiological patterns of acute bacterial meningitis throughout a 32 year period
... "Confirmed" bacterial meningitis cases were defined according to WHO case definition criteria [7]: children presenting with clinical symptoms of meningitis ..."Confirmed" ...
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Effect of delayed lumbar punctures on the diagnosis of acute bacterial meningitis in adults
... suspected meningitis need a CT scan before LP, 23e25 with a strong evidence base to support them, 6 26 getting this translated through to everyday clinical practice is ...
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Prevalence and Diagnosis of Acute Bacterial Meningitis in a Tertiary Care Centre.
... Hassib Narchi et al in 1997 in a study assessed the clinical usefulness of CSF BADT (Bacterial antigen detection test) and Gram stain in children diagnosed to have meningitis. He showed Gram stain of CSF ...
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Early complications of acute bacterial meningitis in children beyond neonatal period
... for meningitis in immunocompetent infants and children is primarily influenced by the antibiotic susceptibilities of ...of meningitis caused by sensitive ...
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