Effect of bacterial meningitis complicating severe head trauma upon brain microdialysis and cerebral perfusion

Neurocritical Care

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 282-287

  Mazzeo, Anna Teresa ^a,b,c   Bullock, Ross ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^c VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral blood flow; Glutamate; Meningitis; Microdialysis; Pyruvate; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

CEFAZOLIN; CEFTRIAXONE; GLUCOSE; GLUTAMIC ACID; LACTIC ACID; MEROPENEM; METRONIDAZOLE; NAFCILLIN; PYRUVIC ACID;

ACINETOBACTER; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN METABOLISM; BRAIN PERFUSION; CASE REPORT; DISEASE COURSE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MECHANICAL PROBE; MICRODIALYSIS; NEUROCHEMISTRY; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER CALCOACETICUS; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MICRODIALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 23444434932     PISSN: 15416933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1385/NCC:2:3:282     Document Type: Article

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