Treatment of Cerebrospinal Meningitis

Chemotherapy in the Treatment of Cerebrospinal Meningitis

CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FINDINGS IN NEONATAL BACTERIAL MENINGITIS

Background : Meningitis is more common during the neonatal period than other periods of life and has a prevalence of one in 1000 live births. The similarity of its clinical manifestations with other infectious diseases makes it difficult to diagnose. The aim of the current study was to determine the relationship between age, sex, clinical signs and symptoms and laboratory test results of ne...

Common Cause and Cerebrospinal Fluid Changes of Acute Bacterial Meningitis

  Background and Objective: Bacterial meningitis is an important cause of mortality and long-term neural morbidity. Immediate diagnosis and treatment are necessary in appropriate time. This study was designed in Afzalipour Hospital in Kerman to evaluate meningitis causes, frequency and CSF laboratory changes. Patients and Methods: In this retrograde descriptive study from September 2003 to Se...

Treatment of Cerebrospinal Meningitis by Spinal Irrigation with Electrargol

dome; years ago, Widal reported a desperate case of cerebrospinal meningitis which was apparently cured by washing out the spinal theca with solution of collargol. Bonche and his colleagues have recorded a case in which the spinal theca was washed with warm sterile normal saline solution through two needles, one introduced between the 2nd and 3rd lumbar vertebne and the other between the 7th ce...

Epidemic Cerebrospinal Meningitis

or the first volume of the Journal of Hygiene would have enabled him to write a more correct history of the disease rather than blindly follow Hirsch's history from his splendid but now out of date book on Geographical Pathology. After all this is a minor blemish, for otherwise the book gives a singularly full account of the clinical history, the laboratory diagnosis, the blood-pressure and the...