Pneumococcal Meningitis in Childhood.
Abstract
Summary: A retrospective review of 114 children, aged between two weeks and ten years, with pneumococcal meningitis. has revealed a mortality of 30.6% and a significant morbidity in 42.7% of the survivors. Recurrent meningitis occurred in two children, neither of whom had any overt predisposing factor. Important factors indicating a poor prognosis included the presence of coma, low blood leukocyte count, low serum sodium level, low CSF glucose as well as the presence of anaemia. Two children, one with Hb SC and the other with metastatic endophthalmitis, recovered without sequelae.
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