Tuberculous meningitis-related optic neuritis: Recovery of vision with thalidomide in 4 consecutive cases

Journal of Child Neurology

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 822-828

  Schoeman, Johan F ^a   Andronikou, Savvas ^a   Stefan, D Christina ^a   Freeman, Nicola ^a   Van Toorn, Ronald ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

blindness; optic arachnoiditis; recovery of vision; thalidomide; tuberculosis meningitis

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFTRIAXONE; ETHIONAMIDE; ISONIAZID; PREDNISONE; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; THALIDOMIDE; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADD ON THERAPY; ADJUVANT THERAPY; ARACHNOIDITIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; BRAIN; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CYTOLOGY; CHILD; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EYE EXAMINATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MALE; MENINGITIS; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; NEUROIMAGING; NONCOMMUNICATING HYDROCEPHALUS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NYSTAGMUS; OPTIC CHIASM ARACHNOIDITIS; OPTIC NEURITIS; OTORRHEA; PAPILLEDEMA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; COMPLICATION; DRUG COMBINATION; DRUG EFFECTS; PATHOLOGY; TUBERCULOSIS, MENINGEAL;

ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OPTIC NEURITIS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; THALIDOMIDE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS, MENINGEAL; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 77954418492     PISSN: 08830738     EISSN: 17088283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0883073809350507     Document Type: Article

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