Hypernatremia in bacterial meningitis

Journal of Infection

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 381-382

  van de Beek, Diederik ^a   Brouwer, Matthijs ^a   de Gans, Jan ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SODIUM;

ADULT; AGED; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIDEMIC MENINGITIS; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERNATREMIA; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; AGED; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERNATREMIA; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS;

EID: 34548488459     PISSN: 01634453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2007.06.009     Document Type: Letter

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