Internal medicine
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Intern. Med.
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Multicenter Study
Identifying low-risk patients for bacterial meningitis in adult patients with acute meningitis.
To derive and validate a clinical prediction model with high sensitivity for differentiating aseptic meningitis (AM) patients from bacterial meningitis (BM) patients. ⋯ This simple and sensitive model might be useful to safely identify low-risk patients for BM who would not require antibiotic treatment.
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A 78-year-old woman was admitted for severe heat stroke with brain damage. She was unconscious on arrival at the emergency room. ⋯ On magnetic resonance imaging, T1- and T2-weighted images showed no significant signals, but diffusion-weighted images demonstrated localized symmetrical injuries of the cerebellum and thalami. She gradually became conscious, but severe cerebellar ataxia persisted.