background acute bacterial meningitis which is a pediatric emergency with high mortality and morbidity must be diagnosed and treat promptly. often diagnosis of bacterial meningitis from viral meningitis is difficult after some days. determination of some inflammatory mediators’ example il-6 and hs-crp were useful in differential diagnosis of bacterial and viral meningitis. objectives this study...

Objective: Meningitis is life-threatening condition and examination of the Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) may not give a precise diagnosis and prognosis of different types of meningitis. Bacterial meningitis is still a very common problem especially in many developing countries. The aims of study are to estimate the importance and significance of Lactate Dehydrogenase (LDH), protein...

Meningitis Tuberkulosis (Meningitis TB) merupakan salah satu jenis TB ekstra paru yang sangat mematikan karena menginfeksi sistem saraf pusat. Oleh itu terapi farmakologi pasca ditegakkannya diagnosis diperlukan untuk mempertahankan dan meningkatkan kualitas hidup pasien. Berdasarkan hal tersebut didapatkan 210 artikel berkaitan dengan kata kunci 15 memenuhi kriteria inklusi. Terapi utama pasie...

tuberculous meningitis (tbm) and acute bacterial meningitis (abm) cause substantial mortality and morbidity in both children and adults. identification of poor prognostic factors at patient's admission could prepare physicians for more aggressive monitoring of patients with meningitis. the objective of this study was to determine the predictive value of neurological features to differentiate ab...

chronic myelogenous leukemia (cml) is a stem cell disorder sometimes associated with lymphoproliferative disorders. cml may precede a lymphoproliferative disorder. there are a few reports showing associating of cml with multiple myeloma and we report a known cml case that transformed into a full-blown multiple myeloma. this patient had more than 69% of infiltrating myeloma cells in her bone mar...

Meningitis is an inflammation of the membranes that surround the brain and spinal cord, thereby involving the arachnoid, the pia and the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). It is divided into viral and bacterial meningitis. For different reasons the diagnosis of bacterial meningitis is very important. The examination of CSF samples may provide information about causative microorganism. The sensivity of ...