tuberculous meningitis

Very high levels of protein may indicate tuberculous meningitis or spinal block.

Dexamethasone for the treatment of tuberculous meningitis in adolescents and adults.

It does, though, give 80% of children protection against tuberculous meningitis and miliary tuberculosis.

About 25% of patients with miliary TB also have tuberculous meningitis.

In April 1911, Joss became ill and he died the same month due to tuberculous meningitis.

Measurement of chloride levels may aid in detecting the presence of tuberculous meningitis.

Tuberculous meningitis requires prolonged treatment with antibiotics.

Ratnam also witnessed the death of his youngest sibling, then four years old, from tuberculous meningitis during the Japanese occupation.

This is another form of tumor that can result in the brain as a result of a tuberculous meningitis infection.

In 1889 he developed a crude cut down with cannulation in four patients with tuberculous meningitis.

It crosses inflamed meninges and is an essential part of the treatment of tuberculous meningitis.

Infection usually mimics that of bacterial leptomeningitis, tuberculous meningitis, or viral encephalitis.

Jaccoud's dissociated fever - fever with slow and irregular pulse in tuberculous meningitis of adults.

Tuberculous meningitis is also known as TB meningitis or tubercular meningitis.

Miliary tuberculosis (tuberculous septicaemia) and tuberculous meningitis, hitherto consistently fatal conditions, yielded to it.

According to Fitzball, Albertazzi 'died young in a deep decline', the term 'deep decline' possibly period code for tuberculous meningitis.

Tuberculous meningitis is Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection of the meninges-the system of membranes which envelops the central nervous system.

BCG is very efficacious against tuberculous meningitis in the pediatric age group, but its efficacy against pulmonary tuberculosis appears to be variable.

A Rich focus is a tuberculous granuloma occurring on the cortex of the brain that ruptures into the subarachnoid space, causing tuberculous meningitis.

By this time, Modigliani was suffering from tuberculous meningitis and his health, made worse by complications brought on by substance abuse, was deteriorating badly.

In the same year he obtained a doctorate in medicine (MD) from the same university for a dissertation entitled "The treatment of tuberculous meningitis".

On April 13, Chapman sought a second opinion from the Naps' team doctor, who performed a lumbar puncture and diagnosed Joss with tuberculous meningitis.

Others have speculated that patients suffered from now easily identifiable conditions unrelated to psychoanalysis, specifically that Anna O. actually suffered from tuberculous meningitis and not hysteria.

Childhood vaccination with Bacillus Calmette-Guérin has been reported to significantly reduce the rate of tuberculous meningitis, but its waning effectiveness in adulthood has prompted a search for a better vaccine.

For tuberculous meningitis, a brain infection that was once a scourge of infancy and even with today's powerful antibiotics can still be fatal, treatments to try included iodine and turpentine massaged into the skin.