[PDF] Top 20 A Study of Cerebrospinal Fluid Chloride Levels in Meningitis

... Raised cerebrospinal fluid levels of TNF-α, IL-1, IL-6, and IL-8 are characteristic findings in pyogenic ...Cytokine levels, including those of IL-6, TNF-α, and IFN- gamma, have been found to ... See full document

... bacterial meningitis, solid data-necessary for early determination of bacterial men­ ingitis (BM) before organism growth in the culture medium-are ...fore cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) lactate ... See full document

... suspected meningitis in combination with cloudy cerebrospinal fluid, bacteria in the CSF on Gram's staining, or a CSF WBC of more than 1000 per mm 3 , showed that adjunctive treatment with dexametha- ... See full document

... Project: Meningitis remains serious clinical problem in developing ...mortality. Meningitis represents a serious disease that is associated with significant morbidity and ...bacterial meningitis have ... See full document

... from patients with bacterial meningitis, as indi- cated by one or more of the laboratory methods (Table 2). Bacteriological cultures were positive for the causative agents in all but fou[r] ... See full document

... bacterial meningitis and aseptic meningitis ...aseptic meningitis also suggests that it has diagnostic ...bacterial meningitis and aseptic meningi- tis. In a recent study of 16 ... See full document

... our study population, we found that the cumu- lative level of CSF defensins and lactoferrin was the most sensitive test (100% at all cutoffs) in predicting which children would have bacterial ...bacterial ... See full document

... analytical study inves­ tigated all newborns (aged less than 28 days) hospital­ ized in the neonatal ward of Bahrami Hospital (Tehran, Iran) between March 1994 and October 1999 and lumbar puncture for sepsis ... See full document

... our study is to the best of our knowledge the first investigating this topic in this way a sample size calculation was not possible and the number of patients included in each group was the number of eligible ... See full document

... Acid-fast staining of CSF sediment is the most rapid method for detection of mycobacterium, but this method lacks sensitivity. The use of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to detect mycobacterium tuberculosis specific DNA ... See full document

... with meningitis, the clinician must make treatment deci- sions, based at least in part, on the evaluation of the ...bacterial meningitis is almost always characterized by a PMN predominance, many pa- tients ... See full document

... pneumoniae meningitis, as this pathogen is the commonest cause of ABM in children in those areas with a high incidence of HIV ...proteomic study reported for pneumococcal meningitis in ... See full document

... pyogenic meningitis differentiated by conventional methods, the mean CSF hsCRP values of patients who recovered completely, who survived with sequelae, who expired were ...hsCRP levels in patients who ... See full document

... this study include the large size, the focus on term or near-term infants, and the incorpora- tion of CSF parameters with blood and CSF culture ...The study is limited in that it is a retrospective analysis ... See full document

... One study in Philipine 5 reported that among 68 patients who were diagnosed with TBM, ...Another study by Chaidir et ...culture. Study in Shanghai 13 reported that 12% of 25 patients TBM have ... See full document

... Variations in the level of LCN2 were observed among patients with confirmed ABM. Early antibiotic treatment (n = 38 in group 1 of our collection) and/or corticoste- roids may modify LCN2 production. The timing of lum- ... See full document

... A total of 200 CSF samples were considered for examination. Patient’s age ranged from 12-90 years. 57% were males and 43% were females. Out of these, 18 (9%) showed growth of microorganisms. Among them, 17 (8.5%) were ... See full document

... meningococcal meningitis compared to those of the methods described in previous publications (3, 6, 10) in which menin- gococcus-specific PCR techniques were ...of meningitis, such as ...present ... See full document

... the study include its retrospective design and limited clinical and labo- ratory ...BDG levels of ⱖ 80 pg/ml are not specific for a diagnosis of Histoplasma ...BDG levels of ⬍ 80 pg/ml cannot reliably ... See full document

... terial meningitis combine clinical and laboratory param- eters to estimate the risk of bacterial ...multicenter study the Bacterial Meningitis Score, a clinical prediction rule that accurately ... See full document