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Meningitis due to non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs: an often-overlooked complication of a widely used medication
A 40-year-old man developed aseptic meningitis after ibuprofen consumption for tension-type headaches. After a thorough diagnostic workup and lack of improvement on empirical therapy for common aetiologies of meningitis (bacterial and viral infections), we suspected non-steroidal anti-inflammatory d...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6855853/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31704799 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2019-231619 |
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author | Desgranges, Florian Tebib, Nathalie Lamy, Olivier Kritikos, Antonios |
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description | A 40-year-old man developed aseptic meningitis after ibuprofen consumption for tension-type headaches. After a thorough diagnostic workup and lack of improvement on empirical therapy for common aetiologies of meningitis (bacterial and viral infections), we suspected non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) induced meningitis due to the temporal relationship between drug administration and symptom onset. Two days after NSAID suppression, the evolution was progressively favourable with complete resolution of fever and symptoms. On follow-up, symptoms did not recur and there was no neurological sequela. This article summarises the clinical picture and the complementary exams that led to the difficult-to-make diagnosis of NSAID-induced acute meningitis, in parallel with a brief review of the literature. |
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spelling | pubmed-68558532019-12-03 Meningitis due to non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs: an often-overlooked complication of a widely used medication Desgranges, Florian Tebib, Nathalie Lamy, Olivier Kritikos, Antonios BMJ Case Rep Rare Disease A 40-year-old man developed aseptic meningitis after ibuprofen consumption for tension-type headaches. After a thorough diagnostic workup and lack of improvement on empirical therapy for common aetiologies of meningitis (bacterial and viral infections), we suspected non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) induced meningitis due to the temporal relationship between drug administration and symptom onset. Two days after NSAID suppression, the evolution was progressively favourable with complete resolution of fever and symptoms. On follow-up, symptoms did not recur and there was no neurological sequela. This article summarises the clinical picture and the complementary exams that led to the difficult-to-make diagnosis of NSAID-induced acute meningitis, in parallel with a brief review of the literature. BMJ Publishing Group 2019-11-07 /pmc/articles/PMC6855853/ /pubmed/31704799 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2019-231619 Text en © BMJ Publishing Group Limited 2019. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Rare Disease Desgranges, Florian Tebib, Nathalie Lamy, Olivier Kritikos, Antonios Meningitis due to non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs: an often-overlooked complication of a widely used medication |
title | Meningitis due to non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs: an often-overlooked complication of a widely used medication |
title_full | Meningitis due to non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs: an often-overlooked complication of a widely used medication |
title_fullStr | Meningitis due to non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs: an often-overlooked complication of a widely used medication |
title_full_unstemmed | Meningitis due to non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs: an often-overlooked complication of a widely used medication |
title_short | Meningitis due to non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs: an often-overlooked complication of a widely used medication |
title_sort | meningitis due to non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs: an often-overlooked complication of a widely used medication |
topic | Rare Disease |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6855853/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31704799 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2019-231619 |
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