Cerebral salt wasting in tuberculous meningitis: Treatment with fludrocortisone

Annals of Tropical Paediatrics

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 297-302

  Celik, Ümit Sizmaz ^a   Alabaz, Derya ^a   Yildizdas, Dinçer ^a   Alhan, Emre ^a   Kocabas, Emine ^a   Ulutan, Selvi ^a  

^a CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFTRIAXONE; FLUDROCORTISONE; PREDNISOLONE; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

BACTERIUM; DISEASE CONTROL; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BABINSKI REFLEX; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN VENTRICLE DILATATION; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFUSION; CONVULSION; DEHYDRATION; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; FEVER; FLUID THERAPY; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HYPONATREMIA; HYPOREFLEXIA; INAPPROPRIATE VASOPRESSIN SECRETION; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MALE; MILIARY TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIGIDITY; SODIUM URINE LEVEL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOMA; TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS; URINE OSMOLALITY; URINE VOLUME; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FLUDROCORTISONE; HUMANS; HYPONATREMIA; MALE; SODIUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS, MENINGEAL; WASTING SYNDROME; WATER-ELECTROLYTE BALANCE;

EID: 28844468884     PISSN: 02724936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/146532805X72458     Document Type: Article

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