Neonatal meningitis. Study of 26 cases and a review of its sequelae after 5 years
Cervantes Pardo, A.; Tauler Girona, M.C.; López Soler, C.; Puche Mira, A.; Casas Fernández, C.; Rodríguez Costa, T.
Anales Espanoles de Pediatria 28(6): 503-507
1988
ISSN/ISBN: 0302-4342 PMID: 2461673 Document Number: 317476
Twenty-six cases of neonatal meningitis in term newborns are studied. Incidence, etiological features, treatment, clinical and biochemical evolution and mortality are analysed. Lief motif of this paper is the search for deficits in psychomotor growth in propositi of four and six years old, finding an important relation between neonatal bacterial meningitis and neuropsychological deficits (hyperkinesia, perceptive area impairment, reading-writing disorders, etc.) in contrast to the good evolution of lymphocytic meningitis.