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New England Journal of Medicine, 2004
Tuberculous (TB) meningitis is common in resource-poor communities but also occurs in developed countries where the diagnosis is frequently delayed because of unfamiliarity with the disease. TB meningitis develops whenever a small intracranial tuberculoma (Rich focus) ruptures causing predominantly basal meningitis.
P.R. Donald, J.F. Schoeman
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Tuberculous (TB) meningitis is common in resource-poor communities but also occurs in developed countries where the diagnosis is frequently delayed because of unfamiliarity with the disease. TB meningitis develops whenever a small intracranial tuberculoma (Rich focus) ruptures causing predominantly basal meningitis.
P.R. Donald, J.F. Schoeman
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Meningitis (II) – acute bacterial meningitis
Therapeutische Umschau, 1999Die akute bakterielle Meningitis ist ein medizinischer Notfall, insbesondere bei Patienten mit rasch progredientem Krankheitsbild und Bewußtseinstrübung. Die Liquoruntersuchung zeigt bei der bakteriellen Meningitis eine entzündliche Reaktion mit vorwiegend polymorphonukleären Zellen.
Stephen L. Leib, Martin G. Täuber
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2018
Abstract This chapter guides the reader on the diagnosis and management of meningitis in hospitalized patients.
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Abstract This chapter guides the reader on the diagnosis and management of meningitis in hospitalized patients.
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Candidal Meningitis Following Bacterial Meningitis
Southern Medical Journal, 1990Patients with bacterial meningitis and posttraumatic and/or postsurgical access to the CSF are at risk for superinfection with Candida species. Patients who are not improving on appropriate antimicrobial chemotherapy for bacterial meningitis or are deteriorating after initial improvement should have a CSF reexamination for Candida superinfection.
Allen B. Kaiser +4 more
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Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, 1992
Meningitis remains a significant health problem for the older adult population. Although the overall incidence of this disease has decreased in the United States, the incidence of meningitis in the elderly population is increasing. Additionally, the recognition of meningitis in the older adult may be more difficult because the usual symptoms and signs ...
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Meningitis remains a significant health problem for the older adult population. Although the overall incidence of this disease has decreased in the United States, the incidence of meningitis in the elderly population is increasing. Additionally, the recognition of meningitis in the older adult may be more difficult because the usual symptoms and signs ...
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Eosinophilic Meningitis and Lymphomatous Meningitis
Annals of Internal Medicine, 1975Excerpt Eosinophilic meningitis is a relatively rare entity which has been associated in the past with lymphomatous involvement of the central nervous system in only a single case of Hodgkin's dise...
Alberto G. Ayala +3 more
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Current Treatment Options in Neurology, 1999
Initial empiric therapy for community-acquired bacterial meningitis should be based on the possibility that penicillin-resistant pneumococci may be the etiologic organisms and, hence, should include a combination of third-generation cephalosporin (cefotaxime or ceftriaxone) and vancomycin.
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Initial empiric therapy for community-acquired bacterial meningitis should be based on the possibility that penicillin-resistant pneumococci may be the etiologic organisms and, hence, should include a combination of third-generation cephalosporin (cefotaxime or ceftriaxone) and vancomycin.
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The dura was first described in ancient Egypt. Hippocrates insisted that it should be protected and not penetrated. Celsus proposed an association between clinical findings and meningeal damage. Galen proposed that the dura was attached only at the sutures, and he was the first to describe the pia in humans.
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