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Corticosteroids for managing tuberculous meningitis
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2016 Background Tuberculous meningitis is a serious form of tuberculosis (TB) that affects the meninges that cover a person's brain and spinal cord. It is associated with high death rates and with disability in people who survive.
K. Prasad, Mamta B. Singh, H. Ryan
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Neurocognitive and functional impairment in adult and paediatric tuberculous meningitis
Wellcome Open Research, 2019 In those who survive tuberculous meningitis (TBM), the long-term outcome is uncertain; individuals may suffer neurocognitive, functional and psychiatric impairment, which may significantly affect their ability to lead their lives as they did prior to ...
A. Davis +7 more
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Acute ischemic stroke in young adults with tuberculous meningitis
BMC Infectious Diseases, 2019 BackgroundIschemic stroke is a common complication in patients with tuberculous meningitis (TBM), which is associated with poor clinical outcome. However, risk factors of stroke in TBM patients were not fully understood, especially in those young adults.
Liming Zhang +4 more
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Microbiological diagnosis of tuberculous meningitis: Phenotype to genotype
The Indian journal of medical research, 2019 Tuberculous meningitis (TBM) is a commonly encountered central nervous system infection. Characteristic clinical, imaging and cerebrospinal fluid parameters help clinicians to make a prompt presumptive diagnosis that enables them to start empirical anti ...
R. Garg
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Frequency and Impact of Cerebral Infarctions in Patients With Tuberculous Meningitis
Stroke, 2018 Background and Purpose— Cerebral infarctions complicate a variable proportion of tuberculous meningitis (TBM) cases and adversely affect outcomes. The objective of this study was to evaluate the predictors of cerebral infarcts in patients with TBM and to
M. Wasay +7 more
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Mechanical Properties of the Meninges: Large Language Model Assisted Systematic Review of over 25,000 Studies [PDF]
arXivAccurate constitutive models and corresponding mechanical property values for the meninges are important for predicting mechanical damage to brain tissue due to traumatic brain injury. The meninges are often oversimplified in current finite element (FE) head models due to their complex anatomy and spatially-variant mechanical behavior.
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THE CLINICAL HISTORY AND RECOGNITION OF TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS. [PDF]
, 1907 Henry Koplik
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Knowledge gaps and research priorities in tuberculous meningitis
Wellcome Open Research, 2019 Tuberculous meningitis (TBM) is the most severe and disabling form of tuberculosis (TB), accounting for around 1-5% of the global TB caseload, with mortality of approximately 20% in children and up to 60% in persons co-infected with human ...
J. Seddon +4 more
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Infection and Drug Resistance, 2022 Ahmed Abdella,1 Endayen Deginet,1 Fitsum Weldegebreal,2 Indeshaw Ketema,3 Bajrond Eshetu,4 Assefa Desalew5 1Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, School of Medicine, College of Health and Medical Sciences, Haramaya University, Harar, Ethiopia ...
Abdella A +5 more
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