Corticosteroid in tuberculous meningitis

Journal of the Medical Association of Thailand

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 1996, Pages

  Chotmongkol, Verajit ^a   Jitpimolmard, Suthipun ^a   Thavornpitak, Yupa ^b  

^a KHON KAEN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b KHON KAEN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; ISONIAZID; PREDNISOLONE; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDNISOLONE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS, MENINGEAL;

EID: 0029983055     PISSN: 01252208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Tandon PN. Tuberculous meningitis. In: Vinken PJ, Bruyn GW, eds. Handbook of clinical neurology. Vol 33. Amsterdam: North Holland Publishing Co, 1987; pp. 195-262.
2. Editorial. Management of non-respiratory tuberculosis. Lancet 1986; 1: 1423-4.
3. Phuapradit P, Vejjajiva A. Treatment of tuberculous meningitis: role of short-course chemotherapy. Q J Med 1987; 239: 249-58.
4. Visudhiphan P, Chiemchanya S. Tuberculous meningitis in children. J Pediatr 1989; 114: 875-9.
5. Alarcon F, Escalante L, Perez Y, et al. Tuberculous meningitis. Short course of chemotherapy. Arch Neurol 1990; 47: 1313-7.
6. Chotmongkol V. Treatment of tuberculous meningitis with 6-month course of chemotherapy. Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health 1991; 22: 372-4.
7. Molavi A, LeFrock JL. Tuberculous meningitis. Med Clin North Am 1985; 69: 315-31.
8. Voljavec BF, Corpe RF. The influence of corticosteroid hormones in the treatment of tuberculous meningitis in Negroes. Am Rev Respir Dis 1960; 81: 539-45.
9. Kocen RS. Tuberculosis of the nervous system. In: Kennedy PGE, Johnson RT, eds. Infection of the nervous system. London: Butterworths, 1987; pp. 23-42.
10. Bell WE, Sahs AL. Bacterial meningitis. In: Joynt RJ, ed. Clinical neurology. Volume 2. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1988: Chapter 24.
11. Des Prez RM, Heim CR. Mycobacterium tuberculosis. In: Mandell GL, Douglas RG Jr, Bennett JE, eds. Principles and practice of infectious diseases. 3rd ed. New York: Churchill Livingstone, 1990; pp. 1877-906.
12. Zuger A, Lowy FD. Tuberculosis of the central nervous system. In: Scheld WM, Whitley RJ, Durack DT, eds. Infections of the central nervous system. New York: Raven Press, 1991; pp. 425-56.
13. Hirsch DJ, Harris AA, Levin S. Chronic meningitis. In: Gorbach SL, Bartlett JG, Blacklow NR, eds. Infectious diseases. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders, 1992; pp. 1181-93.
14. Editorial. Steroids in bacterial meningitis-helpful or harmful? Lancet 1982; 1: 1164.
15. Gordon A, Parsons M. The place of corticosteroids in the management of tuberculous meningitis. Br J Hosp Med 1972; 7: 651-5.
16. Bickerstaff ER. Neurological examination in clinical practice. 4th edition. Singapore: PG Publishing Pte Ltd, 1983.
17. Rich AR, McCordock HA. The pathogenesis of tuberculous meningitis. Bull Johns Hopkins Hosp 1933; 52: 5-37.
18. Don A. Case of tuberculous meningitis in boy treated with tuberculin: recovery, recurrence and death. Br Med J 1907; 1: 1360-2.
19. Weiss W, Flippin HF. The prognosis of tuberculous meningitis in the isoniazid era. Am J Med Sci 1961; 242: 423-30.
20. Lepper MH, Spies HW. The present status of the treatment of tuberculosis of the central nervous system. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1963; 106: 106-23.
21. Auerbach O. Tuberculous meningitis: correlation of therapeutic results with the pathogenesis and pathologic changes. Part II: pathologic changes in untreated and treated cases. Am Rev Tuberc 1951; 64: 419-29.
22. British Medical Research Council. Streptomycin treatment of tuberculous meningitis. Lancet 1948; 1: 582-96.
23. Ebert RH. In vivo observations on the effect of cortisone on experimental tuberculosis using the rabbit ear chamber technique. Am Rev Tuberc 1952; 65: 64-74.
24. Kendig EL, Choy SH, Johnson WH. Observations on the effect of cortisone in the treatment of tuberculous meningitis. Am Rev Tuberc 1956; 73: 99-109.
25. Johnson JR, Furstenberg NE, Patterson R, et al. Corticotropin and adrenal steroids as adjuncts to the treatment of tuberculous meningitis. Ann Intern Med 1957; 46: 316-31.
26. Ashby M, Grant H. Tuberculous meningitis treated with cortisone. Lancet 1955; 1: 65-6.
27. O' Toole RD, Thornton GF, Mukherjee MK, et al. Dexamethasone in tuberculous meningitis; relationship of cerebrospinal fluid effects to therapeutic efficacy. Ann Intern Med 1969; 70: 39-48.
28. Humphries M. The management of tuberculous meningitis. Thorax 1992; 47: 577-81.
29. Weiss W, Flippin HF. The changing incidence and prognosis of tuberculous meningitis. Am J Med Sci 1965; 250: 46-59.
30. Hockaday JM, Smith HMV. Corticosteroids as an adjuvant to the chemotherapy of tuberculous meningitis. Tubercle 1966; 47: 75-83.
31. Bullock MRR, Van Dellan JR. The role of cerebrospinal fluid shunting in tuberculous meningitis. Surg Neurol 1982; 18: 274-7.
32. Peacock WJ, Denny JE. Improving the outcome of tuberculous meningitis in childhood. S Afr Med J 1984; 66: 597-8.
33. Newman PK, Cumming WJK, Foster JB. Hydrocephalus and tuberculous meningitis in adults. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1980; 43: 188-90.
34. Visudhiphan P, Chiemchanya S. Hydrocephalus in tuberculous meningitis in children. Treatment with acetazolamide and repeated lumbar puncture. J Pediatr 1979; 95: 657-60.
35. Smith J, Godwin-Austen R. Hypersecretion of anti-diuretic hormone due to tuberculous meningitis. Postgrad Med J 1980; 56: 41-4.