Should adults with suspected acute bacterial meningitis get adjunctive corticosteroids?

Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 67-70

  Pile, James C ^a   Longworth, David L ^b  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFTRIAXONE; CEPHALOSPORIN; CORTICOSTEROID; DEXAMETHASONE; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN 1; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN 2; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; PENICILLIN G; PLACEBO; RIFAMPICIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA CONVERTING ENZYME; VANCOMYCIN;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG TOLERANCE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; META ANALYSIS; MONOTHERAPY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; SIDE EFFECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 12744271940     PISSN: 08911150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3949/ccjm.72.1.67     Document Type: Article

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