Epidemiology and clinical manifestations of meningitis in patients hospitalized at the Centro Médico Nacional-Hospital Nacional
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Introduction: meningitis is a medical emergency which requires timely diagnosis and treatment to avoid complications.
Objective: determine the clinical and epidemiological characteristics of meningitis in patients hospitalized at the Centro Médico Nacional.
Materials and methods: Cross-sectional study that evaluated patients over 18 years of age with complete records; epidemiological, clinical, paraclinical and therapeutic characteristics were collected. Differences in patient characteristics were explored according to age group.
Results: of the 70 patients, 74 % were male; 72.88 had microbiological isolation and without microbiological isolation (27 %), the most frequently isolated germ was S. pneumoniae. The antibiotic treatment of choice was combined therapy with ceftriaxone plus vancomycin (39 %) with a mortality of 37 %.
Conclusions: bacterial meningitis was the most frequent (50 %) followed by fungal and lastly viral,
combined therapy proved to be the most useful.
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