Serum cortisol levels in children with acute bacterial and aseptic meningitis

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 74-78

  Singhi, Sunit C ^a   Bansal, Arun ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Adrenal insufficiency; Aseptic meningitis; Bacterial meningitis; Corticosteroids in meningitis; Cortisol

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CREATININE; HYDROCORTISONE; PROTEIN; UREA;

AGE; ARTICLE; ASEPTIC MENINGITIS; ATAXIA; AUDIOMETRY; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOKED BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; INFANT; LATEX AGGLUTINATION TEST; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; SERUM; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; INDIA; INFANT; MALE; MENINGITIS, ASEPTIC; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33646076479     PISSN: 15297535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PCC.0000192317.90862.44     Document Type: Article

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