Meningitis in elderly patients

S Delerme, S Castro, A Viallon… - European Journal of …, 2009 - journals.lww.com
… In older adults, CSF white blood cells count, CSF protein, and CSF/blood glucose ratio were
different between NBM and BM. The causative species of BM were Streptococcus species …

Corrected white blood cell count, cell index, and validation of a clinical model for the diagnosis of health care-associated ventriculitis and meningitis in adults with …

K Montes, H Jenkinson, OB Habib, Y Esquenazi… - Clinical Neurology and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Patients with ICH and meningitis had significantly higher average CSF WBC counts, corrected
CSF WBC counts, CSF cell … The average serum CRP was higher in those with meningitis, …

Neoplastic meningitis: how MRI and CSF cytology are influenced by CSF cell count and tumor type

P Proemmel, S Pilgram-Pastor, H Sitter… - The Scientific World …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
… CSF cell counts were increased in 74 and normal in 37 patients. Results. In hematological …
cell count is elevated (Figure 1). Since one-third of these cases of NM had normal cell counts, …

Marked elevation of cerebrospinal fluid white blood cell count: An unusual case of Streptococcus pneumoniae meningitis, differential diagnosis, and a brief review of …

J Menaker, IBK Martin, JM Hirshon - The Journal of emergency medicine, 2005 - Elsevier
meningitis, it is the cerebrospinal fluid white blood cell count … over 50 years ago, bacterial
meningitis continues to cause … In this review, three patients, all eventually diagnosed with a …

[HTML][HTML] Diagnosis, initial management, and prevention of meningitis

DM Bamberger - American family physician, 2010 - aafp.org
… , particularly in young children (ie, a normal white blood cell count does not rule out bacterial
meningitis). Meningitis should be suspected in patients with those features previously noted …

Approach to diagnosis of meningitis Cerebrospinal fluid evaluation

JE Greenlee - Infectious disease clinics of North America, 1990 - Elsevier
… in mind in dealing with patients with meningitis. First, the urgency … meningitis to obtain an
accurate measurement of CSF pressure and to collect quantities of CSF adequate for cell count, …

[HTML][HTML] The utility of cerebrospinal fluid white cell count during the prognostic assessment for cryptococcal meningitis patients: a retrospective study

J Qu, J Jiang, X Lv - BMC Infectious Diseases, 2020 - Springer
… ) cytology and cell count are very … cell count (WCC) in CM patients is not fully understood.
Using longitudinal data of CSF WCC and its relationship with clinical outcomes in CM patients, …

Tuberculous meningitis in patients with and without human immunodeficiency virus infection

MP Dubé, PD Holtom, RA Larsen - The American journal of medicine, 1992 - Elsevier
… HIV-infected patients suggests that ultimate outcome in this population may be poor. A
relationship between low CD4+ cell counts and mortality in tuberculous meningitis has previously …

[HTML][HTML] Prediction of bacterial meningitis based on cerebrospinal fluid pleocytosis in children

S Águeda, T Campos, A Maia - The Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2013 - Elsevier
… fluid white blood cell count that could distinguish bacterial from viral and aseptic meningitis.
A … cerebrospinal fluid white blood cell count was significantly higher in patients with bacterial …

White blood cell count, erythrocyte sedimentation rate and serum C-reactive protein in meningitis: magnitude of the response related to bacterial species

P Valmari - Infection, 1984 - Springer
… Summary: White blood cell count (WBC), erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) and …
meningitis in order to compare the responses evoked by different bacteria. The age of the patients