Disease Information for Meningitis/bacterial
BACT MENINGITIDES, BACT MENINGITIS, Bacterial Meningitides, Bacterial Meningitis, Bacterial meningitis (disorder), Bacterial meningitis unspecified, BM Bacterial meningitis, MENINGITIDES BACT, Meningitides Bacterial, MENINGITIS BACT, Meningitis bacterial, Meningitis due to unspecified bacterium
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Meningitis term usually implies bacterial meningitis; meningococcus, pneumococcus, hemophilus b infections are usual agents CSF and leptomeninges involved; caused by blood stream or local ear or sinus structure infection; this is a medical emergency as can be lethal within hours .
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Demographics & Risk Factors[next]
- Travel, Geographic & Climate Related Factors
- Ethnic or Racial Factors
- Past History
- Recent Event
- Established Disease Population
- Population Group
- Population/Immigrant population
- Population/Pediatrics population
- Population/Previously well
- Sex & Age Groups
- Population/Adult-Aged Only
- Population/Child
- Population/Children/all
- Population/Elderly/Aged patient
- Population/Fetal-newborn
- Population/Infant
- Population/Seventies adult
- Population/Sixties-adult
- Population/Very Young or Very old
Clinical Manifestations[previous][top][next]
- Typical Clinical Presentation
- Delirium in Dialysis Patient
- Elderly have unusual presentations
- Presentation/Ataxia in a child-Acute
- Presentation/Fulminant sepsis/prostration
- Presentation/Opisthotonus/persistant/infant
- Presentation/Toddler acute fever/toxic/pale/lethargic
- SBI/Systemic bacterial infection child
- Clinical Presentation & Variations
- Disease Progression
- Course/Acute
- Course/Acute only
- Course/Fulminant/Precipitous
- Course/Lethal
- Course/Lethal possible/not usual
- Course/Potentially lethal/untreated
- Course/Prognosis bad/usually
- Course/Severe illness
- Course/Untreated mortality high
- Lethal Potential
- Signs & Symptoms
- Aged Adult
- Child
- Infant
- Rigors/Shaking chills
- Neck muscle pains
- Tachycardia/Fast heart rate
- Diaphoresis profuse/active sweating/acute
- Sweats/excess perspiration
- Nausea
- Projectile vomiting
- Vomiting
- Vomiting in Children
- Vomiting in infancy
- Absent focal neurologic signs/expected
- AIDS with Altered Mental State
- AIDS with Seizures
- Altered mental status/Mental status change
- Ataxia
- Ataxia/Staggering Gait
- Bilateral abdominal reflex decreased
- Brudzinski's sign positive
- Changing neurologic signs, rapid
- CNS symptoms/signs
- Cognitive defect
- Confusion/agitation on exam
- Confusion/Disoriented
- Cranial nerve abnormalities/involvement/signs
- Delirium
- Delirium/Agitated delirium
- Difficulty flexing neck
- Dysarthria
- Facial Nerve Palsy/Facial Paralysis
- Facial weakness/droop, unilateral
- Febrile seizure/children
- Fluctuating consciousness
- Focal neurologic deficit
- Fontanelle bulging, infant
- Head retraction/infant
- Headache
- Headache in children
- Headache worse lying down
- Headache, frontal
- Headache, severe
- Headache, sudden severe and new type/Thunderclap
- Headache/worsened by movement
- Impaired judgement/signs
- Infant Seizures
- Irritability/short tempered
- Kernigs sign
- Lethargy/torpor
- Neurological symptoms/signs
- Obtunded/poorly responsive status/signs
- Papilledema on exam
- Seizures
- Seizures/newborn
- Slow speech
- Station change adjustment/infant poor
- Stiff neck/Nuchal rigidity
- Stupor/poor reponse to stimulus
- Sudden unconsciousness
- Unconscious/Narcosis status
- Widening skull sutures/infant
- Cheyne-Stokes respiration
- Hallucination/visual
- Acute Back Pain
- Back Pain
- Backache
- Neck pain
- Red or inflammed pharynx
- Sore throat/Pharyngitis
- Sore Throat/Throat Pain
- Acute sepsis syndrome
- Acutely ill patient/signs
- Chills
- Collapse/Prostration
- Debilitated
- Fatigue/tiredness/exhaustion
- Fever
- Fever in elderly
- Fever in kids
- Fever in kids/Under 3
- Fever, high
- Fever/Febrile Possible
- Flu-Like Syndrome
- High body temperature
- Infant peevish/irritable/fretful
- Malaise
- Old and Very young patients/do poorly
- Sudden death of an infant
- Toxic and febrile/septic
- Anisocoria
- Blurred Optic Disk Margin
- Diplopia/Double vision
- Nerve deafness, recent onset
- Photophobia/Light sensitive
- Visual symptoms
- Tinnitus
- Typical Clinical Presentation
Laboratory Tests[previous][top][next]
- Microbiology & Serology Findings
- Abnormal Lab Findings (Non Measured)
- Abnormal Lab Findings - Decreased
- Abnormal Lab Findings - Increased
- WBC
- ADH/Antidiuretic Hormone/Vasopressin/Oxytocin level (Lab)
- Band forms (Lab)
- Globulin, serum (Lab)
- Glucose, blood (Lab)
- LDH/Lactic Dehydrogenase (Lab)
- NBT test (Lab)
- Neutrophiles (Lab)
- Platelet count (Lab)
- Procalcitonin [Lab)
- WBC/White Blood Cell Count/Leukocytes (Lab)
- CSF Cells
- CSF IGG
- CSF IGG synthesis rate
- CSF IGM
- CSF Immunoglobulin
- CSF Leukocytes
- CSF Neutrophiles
- CSF Protein
Diagnostic Test Results[previous][top][next]
- Other Tests & Procedures
- Pathology
- CT Scan
Associated Diseases & Rule outs[previous][top][next]
- Rule Outs
- Brain abscess
- Brain tumor
- Colorado tick fever
- Cryptococcal meningitis
- Eclampsia of pregnancy
- Empyema, subdural
- Endocarditis, infective
- Lupus cerebritis
- Lyme disease
- Lyme disease neurologic involvement
- Meningitis, coccidioidomycosis
- Neuroleptic malignant syndrome
- Pneumonia/Bronchopneumonia
- Rocky mountain spotted fever
- Spinal epidural abscess
- Tetanus
- West Nile Encephalitis
- Associated Disease & Complications
- AIDS Dementia
- Amnesia
- Bacteremia/Septicemia
- Bacterial diseases
- Bells palsy/Facial nerve paralysis
- Brain abscess
- Central diabetes insipidus
- Cerebral spastic diplegia
- Cerebral vein thrombosis/phlebitis
- CNS disease/involvement
- Cognitive/learning disability
- Coma in Children
- Coma in Elderly
- Coma/Unconscious
- Convulsions (grand mal)
- Cranial nerve palsy
- Deafness
- Deafness, congenital
- Deafness, sensorineural
- Death Outcome
- Dehydration
- Encephalitis, bacterial
- Encephalitis, secondary
- Endocarditis, right heart
- Facial nerve palsy/secondary
- Febrile convulsion
- Hemiparesis
- Hemiplegia
- Hydrocephalus, acute acquired
- Hydrocephalus, chronic acquired
- Hyperglobulinemia
- Hyperpyrexia
- Hyponatremia
- Inappropriate ADH secretion syndrome
- Increased CNS pressure/Intracranial hypertension
- Infantile muscular spasms/Hypsarrhythmia
- Leukocytosis
- Meningitis
- Meningitis, bacterial
- Mental retardation
- Optic neuritis
- Organic brain syndrome
- Pituitary ischemic necrosis
- Pneumonia, aspiration
- Prerenal azotemia
- Psychosis
- Pulmonary edema/non-cardiogenic
- Secondary Psychosis/Symptomatic
- Seizure disorder (epilepsy)
- Status epilepticus
- Subdural effusion
- Sudden death/Child
- Suppurative labyrinthitis
- Thrombocytosis
- Precocious Puberty
- Childhood Seizures
- Facial Paralysis
- Foix-Chavany-Marie Syndrome
- Deafness Acquired
- Rule Outs
Disease Mechanism & Classification[previous][top][next]
- Specific Agent
- AGENT/Bacteria (category)
- Class
- CLASS/Pediatric disorders (ex)
- CLASS/Meninges/pia/arachnoid involvement (ex)
- CLASS/Neurologic (category)
- Pathophysiology
- Pathophysiology/Blood-brain barrier leak
- Pathophysiology/CSF Pressure Increased
- Pathophysiology/Hydrocephalus/communicating
- Process
- PROCESS/Acute infection (ex).
- PROCESS/Complicating disorder (ex)
- PROCESS/Complicating/Specific process disorder (ex)
- PROCESS/Infected organ/abscess (category)
- PROCESS/Infection/agent specific (category)
- PROCESS/Inflammatory/infection (ex)
- Specific Agent
Treatment[previous][top][next]
- Drug Therapy - Indication
- RX/Antibiotic
- RX/Corticosteroid adjunct to antibiotics
- RX/Meropenem (Merrem)
- RX/Parenteral antibiotics required
- Drug Therapy - Indication
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