title: [Purulent meningitis among adults in the county of Frederiksborg. Therapeutic results in the period 1 January 1980--31 December 1990].
abstract: A review of 158 cases of bacterial meningitis and meningococcal sepsis in adults is presented. The patients were admitted during a 11-year period, from 1980-1990. The incidence was 5.5/100,000 adults per year, which is high. The area had epidemics of meningococcal disease in the years 1987 and 1989. The bacterial agent was meningococci in 40.5%, pneumococci in 21.5% and unknown in 27.2%. The overall lethality was 13.9%, highest (26%) in patients who were infected by pneumococci. The meningococcal relative lethality was 14%. In the period of high meningococcal incidence 1986-1989, we found a relative lethality of 17%. The overall local hospital lethality was 18.3%, which has to be compared with 11.2% among patients primarily admitted to the County hospital. The lethality among patients who underwent emergency transfer from one of the local hospitals to the County hospital was 20%, which is as high as in the group of patients treated locally. Neither of these trends lethality are statistically significant at the level of 5%, tested by chi square tests.
authors.affiliation: Medicinsk afdeling F, Hillerød Sygehus.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Handberg
authors.forename: T K
authors.initials: TK
authors.lastname: Priø
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Rohde
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Antonsen
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hansen
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D003718:Denmark / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D005938:Glucocorticoids / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D016920:Meningitis, Bacterial / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000401:mortality*; D008585:Meningitis, Meningococcal / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000401:mortality*; D011379:Prognosis; D012189:Retrospective Studies
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D005938:Glucocorticoids
vernacular_title: Purulent meningitis hos voksne i Frederiksborg Amt. Opgørelse af behandlingsresultater i perioden 1.1.1980-31.12.1990.