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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Joo-Yeon Engelen-Lee, Matthijs C Brouwer, Eleonora Aronica, Diederik van de Beek
BACKGROUND: Delayed cerebral thrombosis (DCT) is a devastating cerebrovascular complication in patients with excellent initial recovery of pneumococcal meningitis. The aetiology is unknown, but direct bacterial invasion, activation of coagulation or post-infectious immunoglobulin deposition has been suggested. METHODS: We studied histopathology of 4 patients with pneumococcal meningitis complicated by DCT. Results were compared with 8 patients who died of pneumococcal meningitis without DCT and 3 non-meningitis control cases...
February 9, 2018: Annals of Intensive Care
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