Tuberculous meningitis: neuroimaging features, clinical staging and outcome
Forty-two patients diagnosed with tuberculous meningitis in Kuala Lumpur Hospital based on clinical criteria, cerebrospinal fluid analysis and response to antituberculous treatment over a seven year period were included in this study. Relevant information was obtained from pa-tients’ medical case no...
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| description | Forty-two patients diagnosed with tuberculous meningitis in Kuala Lumpur Hospital based on clinical criteria, cerebrospinal fluid analysis and response to antituberculous treatment over a seven year period were included in this study. Relevant information was obtained from pa-tients’ medical case notes and neuroimaging findings were evaluated. The clinical presentation of pa-tients was staged according to Medical Research Council for tuberculous meningitis. Fisher’s Exact Test was used to determine the correlation between the neuroimaging features, clinical staging and outcome of patients. 52.4% of patients had stage 2 disease, 28.6% stage 3 and the remainder stage1 disease. 95.2% of patients had various neuroimaging abnormalities and only 4.8% had normalneuroimaging findings. The commonest neuroimaging findings were hydrocephalus and meningealenhancement. 47.6% of patients survived without any complication. 23.8% developed morbidity ei-ther with minor or major neurological deficit and 28.6% had died at the end of the study period.Among patients with negative neuroimaging findings, one died and another one survived withoutany complication. Among patients with abnormal neuroimaging findings, 25% developed morbidity,27.5% died and 47.5% survived without complication. The only neuroimaging feature significantlycorrelated with clinical outcome was the presence of hydrocephalus. Therefore, hydrocephalus isimportant in the prognosis of the disease and should be considered an indicator of poor clinical out-come. There was no significant correlation between clinical staging and clinical outcome, nor wasthere a significant correlation between clinical staging and individual neuroimaging features |
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| spelling | upm-174892015-12-09T01:17:37Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/17489/ Tuberculous meningitis: neuroimaging features, clinical staging and outcome Al-Edrus, Sharifah Aishah Muda, Ahmad Sobri M, Nordiyana Merican, J.S. Forty-two patients diagnosed with tuberculous meningitis in Kuala Lumpur Hospital based on clinical criteria, cerebrospinal fluid analysis and response to antituberculous treatment over a seven year period were included in this study. Relevant information was obtained from pa-tients’ medical case notes and neuroimaging findings were evaluated. The clinical presentation of pa-tients was staged according to Medical Research Council for tuberculous meningitis. Fisher’s Exact Test was used to determine the correlation between the neuroimaging features, clinical staging and outcome of patients. 52.4% of patients had stage 2 disease, 28.6% stage 3 and the remainder stage1 disease. 95.2% of patients had various neuroimaging abnormalities and only 4.8% had normalneuroimaging findings. The commonest neuroimaging findings were hydrocephalus and meningealenhancement. 47.6% of patients survived without any complication. 23.8% developed morbidity ei-ther with minor or major neurological deficit and 28.6% had died at the end of the study period.Among patients with negative neuroimaging findings, one died and another one survived withoutany complication. Among patients with abnormal neuroimaging findings, 25% developed morbidity,27.5% died and 47.5% survived without complication. The only neuroimaging feature significantlycorrelated with clinical outcome was the presence of hydrocephalus. Therefore, hydrocephalus isimportant in the prognosis of the disease and should be considered an indicator of poor clinical out-come. There was no significant correlation between clinical staging and clinical outcome, nor wasthere a significant correlation between clinical staging and individual neuroimaging features CENTAURO S.r.l. BOLOGNA 2007 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/17489/1/Tuberculous%20meningitis.pdf Al-Edrus, Sharifah Aishah and Muda, Ahmad Sobri and M, Nordiyana and Merican, J.S. (2007) Tuberculous meningitis: neuroimaging features, clinical staging and outcome. Neuroradiology Journal, 20 (5). pp. 517-524. ISSN 1971-4009 Tuberculosis Malaysia Tuberculosis, Meningeal Antitubercular agents English |
| spellingShingle | Tuberculosis Malaysia Tuberculosis, Meningeal Antitubercular agents Al-Edrus, Sharifah Aishah Muda, Ahmad Sobri M, Nordiyana Merican, J.S. Tuberculous meningitis: neuroimaging features, clinical staging and outcome |
| title | Tuberculous meningitis: neuroimaging features, clinical staging and outcome |
| title_full | Tuberculous meningitis: neuroimaging features, clinical staging and outcome |
| title_fullStr | Tuberculous meningitis: neuroimaging features, clinical staging and outcome |
| title_full_unstemmed | Tuberculous meningitis: neuroimaging features, clinical staging and outcome |
| title_short | Tuberculous meningitis: neuroimaging features, clinical staging and outcome |
| title_sort | tuberculous meningitis: neuroimaging features, clinical staging and outcome |
| topic | Tuberculosis Malaysia Tuberculosis, Meningeal Antitubercular agents |
| url | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/17489/ http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/17489/1/Tuberculous%20meningitis.pdf |