Clinical Vignette of Bacterial Meningitis Complicated by a Cerebrovascular Event

Community-acquired bacterial meningitis is a life-threatening illness that is commonly caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae. Often, it can be associated with high mortality and morbidity rates especially due to the frequency of added neurological complications like hydrocephalus, seizures, stroke, and...

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Autores principales: Bhutada, Abhishek S, Kodankandath, Thomas V
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Cardiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9637964/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36381728
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.30048
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description Community-acquired bacterial meningitis is a life-threatening illness that is commonly caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae. Often, it can be associated with high mortality and morbidity rates especially due to the frequency of added neurological complications like hydrocephalus, seizures, stroke, and cerebrovascular events. Here we present an unusual case of cerebrovascular infarction complicating the outcome of a patient who suffered from community-acquired bacterial meningitis.
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spelling pubmed-96379642022-11-14 Clinical Vignette of Bacterial Meningitis Complicated by a Cerebrovascular Event Bhutada, Abhishek S Kodankandath, Thomas V Cureus Cardiology Community-acquired bacterial meningitis is a life-threatening illness that is commonly caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae. Often, it can be associated with high mortality and morbidity rates especially due to the frequency of added neurological complications like hydrocephalus, seizures, stroke, and cerebrovascular events. Here we present an unusual case of cerebrovascular infarction complicating the outcome of a patient who suffered from community-acquired bacterial meningitis. Cureus 2022-10-07 /pmc/articles/PMC9637964/ /pubmed/36381728 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.30048 Text en Copyright © 2022, Bhutada et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_sort clinical vignette of bacterial meningitis complicated by a cerebrovascular event
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9637964/
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