title: [Drug-induced aseptic meningitis].
abstract: Aseptic meningitis is a very rare drug reaction involving non-steroidal antiinflammatory agents (ibuprofen and sulindac), antibiotics (cotrimoxazole, trimethoprim, ciprofloxacin) and miscellaneous drugs such as carbamazepine, human immune globulin and muromonab CD3. Meningeal symptoms occur a few hours after drug intake and resolve without sequelae within one or two days after drug withdrawal, mainly in young females with systemic lupus erythematosus or mixed connective tissue disease. Biological findings and radiological investigations are not suggestive of an infectious etiology or rheumatological/neurological disturbances. Diagnosis is simple when recurrent episodes coincide with drug ingestion.
authors.affiliation: Centre de Pharmacovigilance et Centre Anti-Poisons, Hôpital Fernand Widal, Paris.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Maignen
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Castot
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Falcy
authors.forename: M L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Efthymiou
mesh_terms: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000009:adverse effects; D000894:Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal / Q000009:adverse effects; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008582:Meningitis, Aseptic / Q000139:chemically induced*
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D000894:Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal
vernacular_title: Les méningites aseptiques d'origine médicamenteuse.