Intracerebral Hemorrhages in Adults with Community Associated Bacterial Meningitis in Adults: Should We Reconsider Anticoagulant Therapy?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Mook Kanamori, Barry B ^a   Fritz, Daan ^a   Brouwer, Matthijs C ^a   van der Ende, Arie ^a   van de Beek, Diederik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; COUMARIN DERIVATIVE; NADROPARIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ANTITHROMBIN III DEFICIENCY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MALE; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULANTS; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; COHORT STUDIES; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 84866371523     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045271     Document Type: Article

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