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Common complications of bacterial meningitis may be divided into common and uncommon complications:
Common complications of bacterial meningitis may be divided into common and uncommon complications:
====Common complications====
====Common complications====
*Aletered mental status
*Papilledema
*Vision loss
*Hearing loss
*Cranial nerve palsies
*Sepsis
*Seizures
*Focal neurological deficit
*Cerebral infarction
*Shock
*Learning disabilities in infants
*Hydrocephalus
*DIC
*Intracerbral hemorrhage
====Uncommon complications====
*Spinal cord infarction
*Transverse myelitis
*Multiple brain abscess
*ARDS
*Subdural empyema
*Subdural effusions
*Ventriculitis
*Intracranial aneurysm


====Uncommon complications====
====Uncommon complications====

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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Aysha Anwar, M.B.B.S[2]

Overview

Natural history

If left untreated, the bacterial meningitis may cause severe neurological complications such as altered mental status, cranial nerve palsy, increased intracranial pressure, seizures, brain abcess, herniation of cerebellar tonsil and death. [1][1]

Complications

Common complications of bacterial meningitis may be divided into common and uncommon complications:

Common complications

  • Aletered mental status
  • Papilledema
  • Vision loss
  • Hearing loss
  • Cranial nerve palsies
  • Sepsis
  • Seizures
  • Focal neurological deficit
  • Cerebral infarction
  • Shock
  • Learning disabilities in infants
  • Hydrocephalus
  • DIC
  • Intracerbral hemorrhage

Uncommon complications

  • Spinal cord infarction
  • Transverse myelitis
  • Multiple brain abscess
  • ARDS
  • Subdural empyema
  • Subdural effusions
  • Ventriculitis
  • Intracranial aneurysm

Uncommon complications

Prognosis

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Durand ML, Calderwood SB, Weber DJ, Miller SI, Southwick FS, Caviness VS; et al. (1993). "Acute bacterial meningitis in adults. A review of 493 episodes". N Engl J Med. 328 (1): 21–8. doi:10.1056/NEJM199301073280104. PMID 8416268.


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