[Prognostic factors of tuberculous meningoencephalitis lethality].
In order to describe the lethality predictors of patients with tuberculous meningoencephalitis, records of 231 patients were analysed. Ages ranged from less than 1 year to 68 years. Ninety-seven patients (42%) were four years old or less. Apart from 73.2% of patients whose diagnosis was performed by clinical and epidemiologic criteria associated with response to specific therapy, 26.8% had diagnostic confirmation through cerebrospinal fluid (culture, bacilloscopy, PCR) or necropsy. The lethality predictors were: less than 4 years of age, seizures, and severe alterations of consciousness.
Nunes
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Hospital Couto Maia, Brasil.
Cunha
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Gomes
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Lucena
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Moraes
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Melo
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D017052:Hospital Mortality; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008590:Meningoencephalitis / Q000401:mortality*; D011379:Prognosis; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors; D014390:Tuberculosis, Meningeal / Q000401:mortality*