Clinical Presentations and Factors Associated with in-Hospital Mortality of Patients Diagnosed with Subacute and Chronic Infectious Meningitis in A Mexican Hospital
Abstract:Subacute and chronic infectious meningitis are well defined clinical entities although scarcely reported in medical literature [1]. While chronic meningitis is defined as a leptomeningeal inflammation with persistent neurological symptoms with cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) changes which include protein increase, lymphocytic pleocytosis and low glucose lasting 4 weeks or more, [2,3]. subacute meningitis time span is not as well defined but includes those cases from five days to less than four weeks in duration not … Show more
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