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- Title
Adjunctive Corticosteroid Therapy in the Treatment of Coccidioidal Meningitis.
- Authors
Thompson III, George R.; Blair, Janis E.; Wang, Sharon; Bercovitch, Robert; Bolaris, Michael; Van Den Akker, Dane; Lopez, Rodrigo; Heidari, Arash; Catanzaro, Antonino; Cadena, Jose; Chin-Hong, Peter; Spellberg, Brad; Johnson, Royce
- Abstract
Coccidioidal meningitis (CM) has high morbidity, and adjunctive measures to improve outcomes are needed. Using an established multicenter retrospective cohort study of CM (N = 221), we found that patients receiving adjunctive corticosteroids had a significant reduction in secondary cerebrovascular events (P = .0049). Those with CM-associated cerebrovascular events (8%) may benefit from short-term corticosteroids.
- Subjects
COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; MENINGITIS; CORTICOSTEROIDS; COCCIDIOIDES immitis; VASCULITIS
- Publication
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2017, Vol 65, Issue 2, p338
- ISSN
1058-4838
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/cid/cix318