Tuberculous meningitis
Clinical presentations, diagnosis, mortality and prognostic markers of tuberculous meningitis in Vietnamese children: a prospective descriptive study
... [14]. Tuberculous meningitis in adults is well characterized in Vietnam, and these data have been key in developing treatment guidelines, but there are no data on the disease in children [11, ...
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Rare Clinical Presentation of Tuberculous Meningitis: A Case Report
... fast bacilli smears and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) abnormalities to vary between patients with TBM. Delays in recognising and treating tuberculous meningitis may result in severe disabilities and poor ...
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Six months therapy for tuberculous meningitis.
... Tuberculosis (TB) is caused by infection with one of several my- cobacterial species that belong to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex. TB is estimated to be the leading infectious cause of death worldwide alongside ...
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TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS TREATED WITH HYDROCORTISONE AND CORTISONE
... From the first day on, the child was treated as a case of tuberculous meningitis, and put on streptomycin, para-aminosalicvlic acid, and isoniazid.. Feedings were administered through.[r] ...
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Rapid diagnosis of tuberculous meningitis: Evaluation of a modified Zeihl-Neelsen staining technique for demonstrating Mycobacterium tuberculosis
... have tuberculous meningitis by the treating physician, and for whom CSF testing for either AFB smear by auramine-rhodamine stain, Xpert TB PCR, or MGIT/LJ culture is ordered as the part of ...
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Tuberculous meningitis in Denmark: a review of 50 cases
... Methods: A nationwide retrospective study was conducted, comprising all patients notified with tuberculous meningitis (TBM) in Denmark from 2000-2008. Medical records were reviewed using a standardised ...
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Mortality From Tuberculous Meningitis Reduced by Steroid Therapy
... Based on the finding that steroids are effective in reducing mortality in tuberculous meningitis patients, the authors recommend that steroids-i. mg/kg daily for 30 days-be used routinel[r] ...
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Quantitative proteomics for identifying biomarkers for tuberculous meningitis
... Ferritin light chain (FTL) is an intracellular iron stor- age protein and downregulation of this protein was vali- dated by IHC in 15 TBM cases (Figure 6). Expression of this protein was observed in control cases within ...
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Cerebral infarction pattern in tuberculous meningitis
... Tuberculous meningitis was termed as “possible” if patients had at least four of the following features: cere- brospinal fluid pleocytosis, lymphocyte predominance in the cerebrospinal fluid, cerebrospinal ...
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Evaluation of GeneXpert MTB/RIF for Diagnosis of Tuberculous Meningitis
... Tuberculous meningitis (TBM) is the most severe form of ...suspected tuberculous meningitis to the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, between 17 April 2011 and 31 ...
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Acute Psychosis as Clinical Manifestation of Tuberculous Meningitis
... All routine investigation including CSF and CT scan was normal. On clinical ground she was diagnosed as a case of acute psychosis and kept on olanzapine. Initially she responded to drug, but again she was admitted due to ...
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Tuberculous Meningitis: Diagnostic and Radiological Features, Pathogenesis and Biomarkers
... Tuberculosis (TB) is a major health and clinical problem in the world [1-3]. There are eight million new cases an- nually [2]. The disease also results in three million deaths [2]. 15% of all tuberculous ...
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FURTHER OBSERVATIONS ON ELECTROLYTE CHANGE IN TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS
... The volume of the bromide space (corrected by 10 per cent for the bromide content of erythrocytes) of patients with tuberculous meningitis plotted against the body weight in kg.. Total c[r] ...
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Tuberculous radiculomyelitis complicating tuberculous meningitis
... According to the patient and his family, compliance with antituberculous therapy had been excellent. Neurological examination showed absent lower limb deep tendon reflexes. Muscle strength was clearly decreased (3/5), ...
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Diagnostic features of tuberculous meningitis: a cross sectional study
... either tuberculous or bacterial menin- ...of tuberculous meningitis: age, length of history, white blood cell count, total cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) white cell count, and CSF neutrophil ...bacterial ...
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Differential diagnosis of tuberculous meningitis from partially-treated pyogenic meningitis by cell ELISA
... Background: Tuberculous meningitis (TBM) is a major global health problem, and it is sometimes difficult to perform a differential diagnosis of this disease from other diseases, particularly partially- ...
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DISTURBANCES OF IONIC EQUILIBRIUM OF INTRACELLULAR AND EXTRACELLULAR ELECTROLYTES IN PATIENTS WITH TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS
... Determinations of the concentrations of electrolytes in the plasma, red blood cells and skeletal muscle of children with tuberculous meningitis have revealed abnormalities of the electro[r] ...
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Corticosteroids for managing tuberculous meningitis
... with tuberculous meningitis die (Tandon 1988; Thwaites ...survive tuberculous meningitis (Ramchandran 1986; Alarcón 1990; Jacobs 1990; Jacobs ...
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Intensified treatment with high dose Rifampicin and Levofloxacin compared to standard treatment for adult patients with Tuberculous Meningitis (TBM IT): protocol for a randomized controlled trial
... Methods/Design: A randomized, double blind, placebo-controlled trial with two parallel arms, comparing standard Vietnamese national guideline treatment for tuberculous meningitis with standard treatment ...
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Original Article Gene polymorphism of leukotriene A4 hydrolase (rs17525495) among tuberculous meningitis and its associations with clinical corticosteroid treatments in Han population of Northern China
... Tuberculosis (TB) is caused by mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), leading to millions of deaths every year. As one major infectious disease, TB remains a world-wide health concern, especial- ly in developing countries [1, ...
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