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- Title
Applying the Bacterial Meningitis Score in Neonates Diagnosed Meningitis: A Single Center Experience.
- Authors
Sun Young Park; Kyoo Hyun Seo; Jae Min Lee; Eun Sil Lee; Saeyoon Kim
- Abstract
Purpose: To identify the factors associated with differential diagnosis of neonatal bacterial meningitis at the earliest opportunities possible and to evaluate the value of the bacterial meningitis score especially in neonates. Methods: We conducted a single-center, retrospective study of neonates diagnosed meningitis at our hospital between January 2000 and March 2014. We compared the general characteristics, clinical manifestations, laboratory findings, bacterial meningitis scores between the bacterial group and the aseptic group. Results: Bacterial meningitis differs significantly from aseptic meningitis in platelet count, the cerebrospinal fluid polymorphonuclear leukocyte count, and the serum protein including also the albumin (P<0.05). Except two infants, the bacterial meningitis score over 2 accurately predict bacterial meningitis in the other 11 infants. Conclusion: The bacterial meningitis score appears highly useful to identify neonatal infants with bacterial meningitis. However, its diagnostic and prognostic value is just 'adjunctive', because low score cannot rule out bacterial meningitis.
- Subjects
BACTERIAL meningitis; NEWBORN infant health; NEONATAL diseases; NEUTROPHILS; DIAGNOSIS; BACTERIAL disease treatment
- Publication
Neonatal Medicine, 2017, Vol 24, Issue 1, p26
- ISSN
2287-9412
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5385/nm.2017.24.1.26