Twenty years of pediatric tuberculous meningitis: A retrospective cohort study in the western cape of south africa

Pediatrics

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Van Well, Gijs T J ^a,d   Paes, Berbe F ^a   Terwee, Caroline B ^b   Springer, Priscilla ^c   Roord, John J ^a   Donald, Peter R ^c   Van Furth, A Marceline ^a   Schoeman, John F ^c  

^a Departments of Pediatrics and Infectious Diseases   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^d MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Hydrocephalus; Meningitis; Neurologic outcome; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; ETHIONAMIDE; FUROSEMIDE; ISONIAZID; PREDNISONE; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN;

ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN STEM INJURY; BRAIN VENTRICLE; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNICATING HYDROCEPHALUS; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVULSION; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEADACHE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINX DISORDER; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NEWBORN; PATIENT; PNEUMOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOUTH AFRICA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOUTH AFRICA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS, MENINGEAL;

EID: 63849291316     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2008-1353     Document Type: Article

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