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Acute bacterial meningitis

Factors related to prognosis

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This is a review of the charts of 160 patients with bacterial meningitis admitted to the Nemazee and Saadi University affiliated hospitals located in Shiraz, south-east of Iran, during a period of ten years (1961–1971).

The fatality rate was 45%. In this review, the significant prognostic indicators were: age of the patient, survival time after admission, associated pneumonia, stage of consciousness and presence of convulsions, low or normal peripheral leucocyte count.

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    Ch. Hashemi

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From the Department of Paediatrics, Pahlavi University Medical School, Shiraz, Iran.

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Hashemi, C. Acute bacterial meningitis. Indian J Pediatr 42, 209–214 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02752900

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