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Meningitis
Research results from Louisiana State University, Medical Department update knowledge of meningitis
February 3rd, 2009
"A 50-year-old man presented with progressive visual loss, headache, and two days of confusion. A computed tomography of his head suggested subarachnoid hemorrhage with accompanying right parietal ischemic infarction," scientists in the United States report. "The magnetic resonance image was consistent with right parietal perisulcal pial and superficial cortical inflammation; a subjacent vasogenic edema with a 1 cm diameter abscess was also present. Funduscopy revealed bilateral multifocal choroidal lesions and retinal perivascular sheathing," wrote R. Hoque and colleagues, Louisiana State University, Medical Department. The researchers concluded:...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2009-02-03)
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