Infartos cerebrales e hidrocefalia secundaria a meningitis tuberculosa: revisión a partir de un caso clínico / Brain infarcts and hydrocephaly secondary to tuberculosis meningitis: clinic case review
Rev. chil. med. intensiv
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22(2): 118-121, 2007. ilus, tab
Article
in Spanish
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RESUMEN
La tuberculosis sigue siendo un importante problema y un tópico de la salud pública de magnitud considerable. La tuberculosis que compromete al sistema nervioso central es un importante y serio compromiso extrapulmonar. El infarto y la hidrocefalia cerebral son complicaciones graves de la meningitis tuberculosa y son de mal pronóstico. Presentamos a un paciente con tuberculosis miliar y compromiso meníngeo que cursa con infartos cerebrales múltiples e hidrocefalia. Él presentó una mala evolución y falleció.
ABSTRACT
Tuberculosis remains a major global problem and a public health issue of considerable magnitude.Tuberculosis involvement of the central nervous system is an important and serious type of extra pulmonary involvement.Cerebral infarction and hydrocephalus are serious complications of tuberculous meningitis and may worsen the prognosis.We present a patient of milliar tuberculosis and meningeal compromise that course with multiple cerebral infarcts and hydrocephalus. He had a poor outcome.
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Main subject:
Tuberculosis, Meningeal
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Hydrocephalus
Type of study:
Etiology study
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Prognostic study
Limits:
Adult
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Humans
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Male
Language:
Spanish
Journal:
Rev. chil. med. intensiv
Journal subject:
Medicine
Year:
2007
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Chile
Institution/Affiliation country:
Hospital Dr. Sótero del Río/CL
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