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Extensive vasculitis in tuberculous meningitis
Journal of Global Infectious Diseases, 2023 Tuberculous meningitis causes substantial morbidity and mortality in tropical countries. The various complications reported are hydrocephalus, vasculitic infarcts, tuberculomas, abscesses, and optochiasmatic arachnoiditis.
Rajesh Verma, Rajarshi Chakraborty
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Therapy for Tuberculous Meningitis
New England Journal of Medicine, 2016 Contains fulltext : 171792.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
Boeree, M.J. +2 more
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Protective effect of neonatal BCG vaccines against tuberculous meningitis
Biomolecules & Biomedicine, 2004 Neonatal BCG vaccination reduces the risk of tuberculosis and provides protection higher than 80% against the development of meningeal and miliary tuberculosis in newborns.
Sandra Puvacić +3 more
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Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra for the diagnosis of HIV-associated tuberculous meningitis: a prospective validation study. [PDF]
, 2020 INTRODUCTION: Tuberculous meningitis accounts for 1-5% of tuberculosis cases. Diagnostic delay contributes to poor outcomes. We evaluated the performance of the new Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra (Xpert Ultra) for tuberculous meningitis diagnosis.
ASTRO-CM team +17 more
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Application of a stochastic modeling to evaluate tuberculosis onset in patients treated with tumor necrosis factor inhibitors [PDF]
Agliari E, Asti L, Barra A, Scrivo R, Valesini G, Wallis RS. PLoS
ONE 8(1): e55017 (2013), 2012 In this manuscript we apply stochastic modeling to investigate the risk of reactivation of latent mycobacterial infections in patients undergoing treatment with tumor necrosis factor inhibitors. First, we review the perspective proposed by one of the authors in a previous work and which consists in predicting the occurrence of reactivation of latent ...
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Pakistan Armed Forces Medical Journal, 2021 Objective: To assess the clinical profile and outcome of patients admitted with the diagnosis of tuberculous meningitis (TBM) at neurology unit of a tertiary care teaching hospital of Pakistan. Study Design: Cross-sectional study.
Atifa Gilani +5 more
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Tuberculous Meningitis: The Important Role of Imaging [PDF]
, 2021 Tuberculous meningitis is the most severe form of tuberculosis, and the diagnosis continues to be challenging for clinicians. Indeed, many cases of tuberculous meningitis cannot be confirmed based on clinical findings, and laboratory techniques are ...
Brito, MJ +4 more
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Wellcome Open Research, 2019 Hyponatremia is the commonest electrolyte abnormality in hospitalized patients and is associated with poor outcome. Hyponatremia is categorized on the basis of serum sodium into severe (< 120 mEq/L), moderate (120-129 mEq/L) and mild (130-134mEq/L ...
Usha K. Misra +2 more
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مجله كليه طب الكندي, 2020 Background :Infectious disorders in general have high morbidity and mortality.. CNS infections include many disorders like bacterial meningitis, tuberculous and other subacute and chronic meningitis, viral meningitis, cerebral abscess, spinal cord ...
Aiyar Shakir Jawad
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