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Current Treatment Options in Neurology, 2001
Treatment of tuberculous meningitis should begin with an anti-tuberculous regimen of at least three drugs: isoniazid, pyrazinamide, and rifampin. Early in the course of therapy, ethambutol or streptomycin may be of some added benefit. If the local incidence of drug resistance to Mycobacterium tuberculosis is greater than 4%, or is unknown, then a ...
Thomas Byrd, Phil Zinser
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Treatment of tuberculous meningitis should begin with an anti-tuberculous regimen of at least three drugs: isoniazid, pyrazinamide, and rifampin. Early in the course of therapy, ethambutol or streptomycin may be of some added benefit. If the local incidence of drug resistance to Mycobacterium tuberculosis is greater than 4%, or is unknown, then a ...
Thomas Byrd, Phil Zinser
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Current Infectious Disease Reports, 2017
As the most severe form of tuberculosis (TB), TB meningitis disproportionately affects developing countries and results in significant morbidity and mortality. In this report, we review recent updates in the epidemiology, diagnosis, and management of TB meningitis.Young children and people living with HIV continue to be at highest risk for TB ...
Kassem, Bourgi +2 more
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As the most severe form of tuberculosis (TB), TB meningitis disproportionately affects developing countries and results in significant morbidity and mortality. In this report, we review recent updates in the epidemiology, diagnosis, and management of TB meningitis.Young children and people living with HIV continue to be at highest risk for TB ...
Kassem, Bourgi +2 more
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Management of Tuberculosis Meningitis
Drugs, 1990This article examines the detection, assessment, and therapeutic modalities available for tuberculosis meningitis. Without appropriate treatment this disease is fatal within 2 months of development, and mortality is closely associated with the stage of disease upon initiation of chemotherapy.
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Tuberculosis meningitis and its management
The Indian Journal of Pediatrics, 19541. An analysis of thirtyone cases of tuberculous meningitis has been presented. 2. It has been shown that the disease is on the increase. 3. Early diagnosis (clinical and C.S.F. changes) and intensive treatment for a prolonged period is necessary for cure. 4.
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Predictors of mortality in patients with meningeal tuberculosis
Neurology India, 2012Meningeal tuberculosis (TB) has higher mortality compared to other forms of central nervous system TB. However, data on predictors of mortality is limited.To determine the predictors of mortality in patients with meningeal TB.This study retrospectively analyzed the data of patients admitted with a diagnosis of meningeal TB between January 2006 and ...
Ajitha Balakrishnan +6 more
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TUBERCULOSIS AS A CAUSE OF TRANSIENT ASEPTIC MENINGITIS
The Lancet, 1973Abstract The great majority of patients with tuberculous meningitis require prolonged treatment to effect cure, but evidence has accumulated that spontaneous recovery may take place in a small proportion of patients with confirmed tuberculous infection of the cerebrospinal fluid. Four such cases are described.
R.T.D. Emond, G.D.W. Mckendrick
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Streptomycin in Miliary Tuberculosis and Tuberculous Meningitis
Acta Paediatrica, 1949SummaryHematogenic tuberculosis can be healed by streptomycin. The author stresses the fact that up to now only about 10–15 % of the cases have been cured, that a number of factors concerning streptomycin still are obscure, that streptomycin is toxic and that its effect is mainly bacteriostatic.RésuméLa tuberculose hématogéne peut êre guérie par la ...
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis Meningitis and Other Etiologies of the Aseptic Meningitis Syndrome [PDF]
Seminars in Neurology, 2000 Mycobacterium tuberculosis is one of the most common infectious agents in the world. It causes an insidious form of meningitis characterized by headache, low-grade fever, stiff neck and cranial nerve palsies, and an acute meningoencephalitis characterized by coma, raised intracranial pressure, seizures, and focal neurological deficits.
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Host and Microbial Predictors of Childhood Extrathoracic Tuberculosis and Tuberculosis Meningitis
Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, 2015Childhood tuberculosis (TB) is a major infectious disease causing morbidity and mortality in children and yet has been largely ignored until recently. This study is the first study to characterize childhood TB in China incorporating both Mycobacterium tuberculosis genetic characteristics and patient data.We analyzed a total of 331 culture-confirmed ...
Zhenhua Yang +5 more
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SIMULTANEOUS OCCURRENCE OF MUMPS MENINGOENCEPHALITIS AND TUBERCULOSIS MENINGITIS
The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, 1989Accurate early diagnosis of meningitis and institution of appropriate therapy are matters of urgency. The clinical and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) findings in viral meningoencephalitis, however, may at times be difficult to distinguish from the early stages of tuberculous meningitis.
Kalis N.N. +3 more
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