Acute Pneumococcal Myelitis in an Adult Patient

Pneumococcal meningitis represents the most severe community-acquired bacterial meningitis. The disease is frequently associated with various complications. We present a case of pneumococcal meningitis in an immunocompetent adult patient treated with hypothermia. The disease course was complicated w...

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Autores principales: Višković, Klaudija, Mustapić, Matej, Kutleša, Marko, Lepur, Dragan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4049043/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24926167
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-777X.132048
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author Višković, Klaudija
Mustapić, Matej
Kutleša, Marko
Lepur, Dragan
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description Pneumococcal meningitis represents the most severe community-acquired bacterial meningitis. The disease is frequently associated with various complications. We present a case of pneumococcal meningitis in an immunocompetent adult patient treated with hypothermia. The disease course was complicated with severe myelitis and consequent paraplegia which is an extremely rare complication of pneumococcal disease.
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spelling pubmed-40490432014-06-12 Acute Pneumococcal Myelitis in an Adult Patient Višković, Klaudija Mustapić, Matej Kutleša, Marko Lepur, Dragan J Glob Infect Dis Case Report Pneumococcal meningitis represents the most severe community-acquired bacterial meningitis. The disease is frequently associated with various complications. We present a case of pneumococcal meningitis in an immunocompetent adult patient treated with hypothermia. The disease course was complicated with severe myelitis and consequent paraplegia which is an extremely rare complication of pneumococcal disease. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC4049043/ /pubmed/24926167 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-777X.132048 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Global Infectious Diseases http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4049043/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24926167
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