Relationship between short-term outcome and occurrence of cerebral artery stenosis in survivors of bacterial meningitis

Journal of Neurology

Volumn 245, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 87-92

  Müller, Martin ^a   Merkelbach, Stefan ^a   Hermes, Manfred ^a   König, Jochem ^b   Schimrigk, Klaus ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Inst Med Biometr Epidemiol M   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cerebrovascular disease; Meningitis; Stroke; Ultrasonics; Vasospasm

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BASILAR ARTERY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN ARTERY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DISABILITY; DISEASE COURSE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; CAROTID STENOSIS; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; SURVIVORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031910403     PISSN: 03405354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004150050183     Document Type: Article

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