Delayed cerebral thrombosis in bacterial meningitis: A prospective cohort study

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 866-871

  Lucas, Marjolein J ^a   Brouwer, Matthijs C ^a   Van De Beek, Diederik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bacterial meningitis; Cerebral infarction; Complication; Delayed cerebral thrombosis; Secondary deterioration

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C5A; DEXAMETHASONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BRAIN INFARCTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PNEUMOCOCCAL MENINGITIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DEXAMETHASONE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTRACRANIAL THROMBOSIS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL PUNCTURE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84885022125     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-012-2792-9     Document Type: Article

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