Use of Adjunctive Steroids and Incidence of Delayed Cerebral Venous Thrombosis in Adults with Bacterial Meningitis

BACKGROUND: Bacterial meningitis is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Adjunctive steroids decrease mortality in adults with meningitis due to Streptococcus pneumoniaebut its use has been recently linked to the development of delayed cerebral thrombosis (DCT). The purpose of our st...

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Autores principales: Gallegos, Cinthia, Salazar, Lucrecia, Tobolowsky, Farrell, Nigo, Masayuki, Hasbun, Rodrigo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5632205/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx162.019

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