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Hydrocephalus in tuberculous meningitis in children: Treatment with acetazolamide and repeated lumbar puncture
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In the 24 patients who had communicating hydrocephalus and were treated with acetazolamide and repeated lumbar punctures, treatment was successful in all but two, in whom shunt surgery was needed.About:
This article is published in The Journal of Pediatrics.The article was published on 1979-10-01. It has received 27 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Tuberculous meningitis & Lumbar puncture.read more
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Treatment outcomes of childhood tuberculous meningitis: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Silvia S. Chiang,Faiz Ahmad Khan,Meredith B. Milstein,Arielle W. Tolman,Andrea Benedetti,Andrea Benedetti,Jeffrey R. Starke,Mercedes C. Becerra,Mercedes C. Becerra,Mercedes C. Becerra +9 more
TL;DR: Poor prognosis and difficult early diagnosis emphasise the importance of preventive therapy for child contacts of patients with tuberculosis and low threshold for empirical treatment of tuberculous meningitis suspects.
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Serial CT scanning in childhood tuberculous meningitis: prognostic features in 198 cases.
TL;DR: Serial CT scanning was found to be valuable in defining the respective roles of raised intracranial pressure and parenchymal disease in the outcome of tuberculous meningitis.
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Tuberculous hydrocephalus: comparison of different treatments with regard to ICP, ventricular size and clinical outcome.
TL;DR: Nearly two‐thirds of children with stage II tuberculous meningitis were mildly disabled and nearly one‐half with stage III were severely disabled at follow‐up, emphasising the need for early diagnosis of tuberculosis in the young child.
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Treatment of tuberculosis in children.
TL;DR: Rational guidelines for the treatment and control of pulmonary and extrapulmonary tuberculosis in children are given, giving special consideration to questions of antibiotic resistance.
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Central nervous system tuberculosis: pathophysiology and imaging findings.
TL;DR: An extensive review of typical and atypical imaging appearances of intracranial tuberculosis is presented, and pathogenesis, patterns of involvement, and advances in imaging of intridrug-resistant tuberculosis are discussed.
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A simple constant‐infusion manometric test for measurement of CSF absorption: I. Rationale and method
Robert Katzman,Francis Hussey +1 more
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The production of cerebrospinal fluid in man and its modification by acetazolamide.
TL;DR: The availability at the National institutes of Heal th of a group of patients undergoing cerebrospinal fluid perfusion chemotherapy for the treatment of central nervous system neoplasm afforded the opportunity for the opportunity to study the effects of acetazolamide on spinal fluid production and absorption.
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Cerebrospinal hydrodynamics: iv. clinical experimental studies
TL;DR: Experimental evidence was reported indicating that sudden release of high intracranial fluid tension in dogs causes cellular injury to the central nervous system accompanied by an increased fluid content of the nerve tissues.