Vision impairment in tuberculous meningitis: Predictors and prognosis

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 290, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 27-32

  Sinha, Manish Kumar ^a   Garg, Ravindra Kumar ^a   Anuradha HK, ^a   Agarwal, Atul ^a   Singh, Maneesh Kumar ^a   Verma, Rajesh ^a   Shukla, Rakesh ^a  

^a KING GEORGE'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Cerebral tuberculoma; Optic atrophy; Optochiasmatic arachnoiditis; Pulmonary tuberculosis; Tuberculous meningitis; Vision loss

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; DEXAMETHASONE; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; MANNITOL; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARACHNOIDITIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; CRANIAL NEUROPATHY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; FEMALE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAPILLEDEMA; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; SEIZURE; TUBERCULOMA; TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADULT; ARACHNOID; BRAIN; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PROTEINS; CRANIAL NERVE DISEASES; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OCULAR MOTILITY DISORDERS; OPTIC CHIASM; OPTIC NERVE; PAPILLEDEMA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TUBERCULOMA, INTRACRANIAL; TUBERCULOSIS, MENINGEAL; VISION DISORDERS; VISION TESTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 74849090929     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2009.12.012     Document Type: Article

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