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[Bacterial meningitis in valencia: epidemiology and therapeutic results in 208 cases (author's transl)].
Anales Españoles de Pediatría 1977 March
Review of 208 patients with bacterial meningitis, admitted from march 1, 1971 to march 1, 1976. Incidence peak was found in Winter (december to march). Etiologically N. meningitiditis, 39, 9%, was the mainly predominate germ. In 49% of the patients C.S.F. cultures were negative, significantly influenced by the previous treatment with antibiotics (P less than 0.001). Cure was obtained in 86.5% Convulsions, 12%, were the most frequent complication, followed by subdural effussion, 3.8%, and arthritis, 2.4%. Twenty patients died, 9.6%; fifteen of them with endotoxic shock. Definitive sequelae was present in the 3.8%, mainly hidrocephaly. A comparative study with other series in Spain is performed.
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