Infarto maligno de la arteria cerebral media en una paciente con meningitis bacteriana

The mortality of acute bacterial meningitis (BM) has remained stable in the last decades in spite of the use of new antibiotics, probably due to vascular complications. We report a 68-year-old woman with BM who had a malignant infarction of left middle cerebral artery territory 72 hours after admiss...

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Autores principales:	López G,Mirta, Mellado T,Patricio, Huete L,Isidro
Lenguaje:	Spanish / Castilian
Publicado:	Sociedad Médica de Santiago 2004
Materias:	Infarction middle cerebral artery Meningitis, bacterial
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0034-988720040010000092004-12-15Infarto maligno de la arteria cerebral media en una paciente con meningitis bacterianaLópez G,MirtaMellado T,PatricioHuete L,Isidro Infarction middle cerebral artery Meningitis, bacterial The mortality of acute bacterial meningitis (BM) has remained stable in the last decades in spite of the use of new antibiotics, probably due to vascular complications. We report a 68-year-old woman with BM who had a malignant infarction of left middle cerebral artery territory 72 hours after admission to the hospital. The patient experienced a bad evolution and died four days after admission. The arterial involvement in patients with BM is explained by vasospasm of large arteries and vasculitis of small arteries. The medical treatment of a malignant middle cerebral artery infarct has a high mortality (Rev Méd Chile 2004; 132: 1217-20)info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSociedad Médica de SantiagoRevista médica de Chile v.132 n.10 20042004-10-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-98872004001000009es10.4067/S0034-98872004001000009
institution	Scielo Chile
collection	Scielo Chile
language	Spanish / Castilian
topic	Infarction middle cerebral artery Meningitis, bacterial
spellingShingle	Infarction middle cerebral artery Meningitis, bacterial López G,Mirta Mellado T,Patricio Huete L,Isidro Infarto maligno de la arteria cerebral media en una paciente con meningitis bacteriana
description	The mortality of acute bacterial meningitis (BM) has remained stable in the last decades in spite of the use of new antibiotics, probably due to vascular complications. We report a 68-year-old woman with BM who had a malignant infarction of left middle cerebral artery territory 72 hours after admission to the hospital. The patient experienced a bad evolution and died four days after admission. The arterial involvement in patients with BM is explained by vasospasm of large arteries and vasculitis of small arteries. The medical treatment of a malignant middle cerebral artery infarct has a high mortality (Rev Méd Chile 2004; 132: 1217-20)
author	López G,Mirta Mellado T,Patricio Huete L,Isidro
author_facet	López G,Mirta Mellado T,Patricio Huete L,Isidro
author_sort	López G,Mirta
title	Infarto maligno de la arteria cerebral media en una paciente con meningitis bacteriana
title_short	Infarto maligno de la arteria cerebral media en una paciente con meningitis bacteriana
title_full	Infarto maligno de la arteria cerebral media en una paciente con meningitis bacteriana
title_fullStr	Infarto maligno de la arteria cerebral media en una paciente con meningitis bacteriana
title_full_unstemmed	Infarto maligno de la arteria cerebral media en una paciente con meningitis bacteriana
title_sort	infarto maligno de la arteria cerebral media en una paciente con meningitis bacteriana
publisher	Sociedad Médica de Santiago
publishDate	2004
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Infarto maligno de la arteria cerebral media en una paciente con meningitis bacteriana

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