Hyponatraemia in adults with community-acquired bacterial meningitis

QJM: An International Journal of Medicine

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 37-40

  Brouwer, M C ^a   van de Beek, D ^a   Heckenberg, S G B ^a   Spanjaard, L ^a   de Gans, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SODIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BRAIN EDEMA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DEHYDRATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FLUID INTAKE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPONATREMIA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NAUSEA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 33845876277     PISSN: 14602725     EISSN: 14602393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/qjmed/hcl131     Document Type: Article

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