Clinical features, laboratory data, management and the risk factors that affect the mortality in patients with postoperative meningitis

Neurology India

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 433-437

  Erdem, Ilknur ^a,b   Hakan, Tayfun ^a   Ceran, Nurgul ^a   Metin, Fatma ^a   Akcay, Seniha ^a   Kucukercan, Metin ^a   Berkman, M ^a   Goktas, Pasa ^a  

^a GATA HAYDARPASA TRAINING HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b NAMIK KEMAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Meningitis; Mortality; Neurosurgery; Nosocomial; Postoperative

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; CEFAZOLIN; CEFEPIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; GLUCOSE; MEROPENEM; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; SULPERAZON; VANCOMYCIN;

ACINETOBACTER; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CONTROL; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEUROSURGERY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATHOGENESIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RISK FACTOR; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 58749113071     PISSN: 00283886     EISSN: 19984022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0028-3886.44629     Document Type: Article

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