Significados de tuberculous meningitis en inglés

A negative Xpert Ultra or Xpert test does not rule out tuberculous meningitis.

Conclusions: Tuberculosis in the central nervous system may present as tuberculoma and tuberculous meningitis.

The local expression of tuberculous meningitis has an high incidence.

These findings have important implications for the development of immuno-modulating treatment strategies for tuberculous meningitis.

Development of diagnostic and treatment strategies requires a thorough understanding of the pathogenesis of tuberculous meningitis.

Extra-pulmonary tuberculosis comprises 13% of all cases of which tuberculous meningitis is the most severe.

The incidence of tuberculous meningitis in children was determined using hospital records as well as local authority notifications.

In tuberculous meningitis, the polymorphism is associated with inflammatory cell recruitment, patient survival and response to adjunctive anti-inflammatory therapy.

We aimed to compare Xpert Ultra with Xpert for the diagnosis of tuberculous meningitis in HIV-uninfected and HIV-infected adults.

Interpretation: Xpert Ultra was not statistically superior to Xpert for the diagnosis of tuberculous meningitis in HIV-uninfected and HIV-infected adults.

Although most CNS infections occurred early, 2 patients developed tuberculous meningitis more than 1 yr post-OLT.

Conclusions: Adjunctive treatment with dexamethasone improves survival in patients over 14 years of age with tuberculous meningitis but probably does not prevent severe disability.

A 37-year-old HIV-positive Gambian woman presented with spastic weakness of the right leg six years after receiving treatment for tuberculous meningitis (TBM).

The researchers took bacteria samples from 187 patients who suffered tuberculous meningitis and 236 other patients who suffered the more common pulmonary tuberculosis.

Background: Tuberculous meningitis kills or disables more than half of those affected with the disease.

Tuberculous meningitis is the most severe form of the disease in which the infection spreads to membranes enveloping the brain and the spinal cord.