Adjunctive treatment with antiinflammatory corticosteroids like dexamethasone increases survival in tuberculosis meningitis. Dexamethasone responsiveness associates with a C/T variant in Leukotriene ...
A pharmacokinetic (PK) study of AC480 administered twice daily in patients with surgically resectable, recurrent malignant glioma (MG) not on enzyme-inducing antiepileptic drug (EIAED). Background: ...
Radboudumc researchers Kirsten van Abeelen, Edwin Ardiansyah, Sofiati Dian, Vinod Kumar, Reinout van Crevel and Arjan van Laarhoven used metabolomics to study cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples from ...
Bagged in three layers of meninges and selectively fenced off by the blood brain barrier, our central nervous system (CNS) interacts within strict limits with our immune system. Protective ...
Hearing impairment is the most common neurologic injury sustained by children after bacterial meningitis. Although dexamethasone has shown potential in reducing the risk for hearing impairment after ...
Baseline labs can be normal and without evidence of leukocytosis or azotemia. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) obtained by lumbar puncture (LP) is essential for the diagnosis of meningitis. The rare but ...
Group B Streptococcus, which people may call group B strep (GBS), is a type of bacterium that causes GBS disease. GBS can lead to meningitis, which is an infection of the lining of the brain and ...
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