Prognostic value of computed tomography-evident cerebral infarcts in adult patients with tuberculous meningitis and hydrocephalus treated with an external ventricular drain

World Neurosurgery

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Clemente Morgado, Tiago ^a   Kinsky, Max ^a   Carrara, Henri ^a   Rothemeyer, Sally ^a   Semple, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Cerebral infarction; External ventricular drainage; Hydrocephalus; Mortality; TB meningitis

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRITISH MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL GRADE; CAPSULA INTERNA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYDROCEPHALUS; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MORTALITY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS; VENTRICULOSTOMY CATHETER;

BMRC; BRITISH MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CI; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CSF; CT; EVD; EXTERNAL VENTRICULAR DRAIN; EXTERNAL VENTRICULAR DRAINAGE; GCS; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HIV; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HYDROCEPHALUS; ICU; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MORTALITY; TB; TB MENINGITIS; TBM; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS; VENTRICULOPERITONEAL SHUNT; VPS;

ADULT; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; COHORT STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DRAINAGE; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SODIUM; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUBERCULOSIS, MENINGEAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84889655054     PISSN: 18788750     EISSN: 18788769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wneu.2012.09.021     Document Type: Review

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