Clinicians should consider performing lumbar puncture in asymptomatic patients who received epidural or paraspinal injections with contaminated steroid products linked to the ongoing and widening ...

Background: Lumbar puncture (LP) to exclude meningitis is part of an infection screen in many neonatal units. For best outcome, meningitis requires early initiation of treatment. Results of ...

Late-onset meningitis (LOM) and late-onset sepsis (LOS) without LOM conferred a significant risk beyond that associated with preterm birth only. The risk of neurodevelopmental impairment (NDI) in LOM ...

During the study period, 2362 infants younger than 90 days with FWS were seen in the department. Table 1 reports descriptive statistics for main epidemiological variables and complementary tests ...

Baseline labs can be normal and without evidence of leukocytosis or azotemia. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) obtained by lumbar puncture (LP) is essential for the diagnosis of meningitis. The rare but ...

Currently the only test to diagnose bacterial meningitis in babies is through a lumbar puncture, a painful and difficult procedure to perform. For this reason, a group of biomedical engineers decided ...

Currently the only test to diagnose bacterial meningitis in babies is through a lumbar puncture, a painful and difficult procedure to perform. For this reason, a group of biomedical engineers decided ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In a prospective study, adhering to Swedish guidelines about when to perform neuroimaging in patients with ...

Bacterial meningitis poses diagnostic challenges in infants. Antibiotic pretreatment and low bacterial density diminish cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) culture yield, while laboratory parameters do not ...

A spinal tap is used to help diagnose conditions like meningitis and measure cerebrospinal fluid pressure. Common side effects of a spinal tap include headaches and back pain. During or after a spinal ...

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the CDC warned of a sharp increase in cases of meningococcal disease in the U.S. More than 500 cases of this serious infection marked by inflammation of the ...

Meningitis can be quickly spotted in babies with "great accuracy" thanks to a new non-invasive test. A study showed that it identified the potentially deadly infection in newborns and infants with 94% ...