PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | meningitis |
| Symptom | C0016169|fistula |
| Sentences | 5 |
| PubMedID- 24381797 | Morbidity consisted of transient ocular movement disturbance in 14 patients, transient ataxia in 3 patients, and 1 case of local cerebrospinal fluid (csf) fistula with meningitis that required surgical treatment. |
| PubMedID- 22747588 | Children with cochlear dysplasia may develop a csf fistula leading to recurrent meningitis . |
| PubMedID- 24334961 | Subjects and methods: the case records of 11 patients (12 ears) treated for congenital perilymph fistula presenting with recurrent meningitis were reviewed to ascertain their clinical, radiological, and intraoperative features and outcome following surgery. |
| PubMedID- 22925201 | A csf fistula entails a risk of bacterial meningitis in the long term, approximately 40% , situation may worsen when the healing of the repair is insufficient, when you leave a lumbar drain, or the administration of prophylactic antibiotics that increase the bacterial resistance and promote infection 3. |
| PubMedID- 20205766 | However, a perforating brain injury is particularly dangerous because a cerebrospinal fluid fistula can lead to meningitis and brain abscess 4. |
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