Bacterial meningitis in pediatric patients: a five-year experience
Muñoz, A.I.
Boletin de la Asociacion Medica de Puerto Rico 74(3): 62-65
1982
ISSN/ISBN: 0004-4849 PMID: 6957196 Document Number: 700902
Prospective data from 72 bacterial meningitis patients admitted at the San Juan City Hospital from October 1976 to April 1982 were reviewed. Pertinent clinical and laboratory features were examined, and the possible relevance of some of the findings as prognostic indicators was analyzed. Prolonged fever, late-onset or persistent convulsions, coma or semicoma on admission, and inappropriate ADH secretion, were associated with a high incidence of neurologic complications. Cerebrospinal fluid glucose content and Gram stain positivity were comparable in 32 patients with prior antibiotic therapy and in 40 untreated patients, but the mean cellularity and protein content were significantly higher in the latter group. The mortality rate was 1%.
Document emailed within 1 workday
