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meningismus

[‚men·ən′jiz·məs]

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Three of five patients in our total cohort who exhibited focal CNS signs or meningismus were subsequently found to have CSF leucocytosis on LP; however, such signs have not been found uniformly discriminating (19).

The yield of lumbar puncture to exclude nosocomial meningitis as aetiology for mental status changes in the medical intensive care unit

signs of hemorrhagic meningitis with concomitant meningismus, delirium,

Bioterrorism defense: are state mandated compulsory vaccination programs an infringement upon a citizen's constitutional rights?

Other documented adverse reactions to cornstarch glove powder include: postoperative synovial inflammation, retroperitoneal fibrosis, meningismus post-craniotomy, post-thoracotomy syndrome, endophthalmitis, pseudotumors, pericardial fibrosis, intra-abdominal granulomas in postoperative heart surgery patients, corneal inflammation postophthalmic surgery, adhesions to the Fallopian tubes, pelvic pain, infertility and myocardial contamination following catheterization.[1, 4, 10, 13]

Glove Powder Complications

In the 11th century this amazing man was already researching cancers and their removal, accurately defining meningitis and meningismus. He also wrote of the importance within a community of purified drinking water and he noted that quarantine regulations, once instituted, controlled infectious diseases.

Catalogue of Eastern desire; ANTIQUES

Examples of SSFs included in the major SSF APG are meningismus and gangrene.

Design of a prospective payment patient classification system for ambulatory care

These 12 patients underwent lumbar puncture, and CSF abnormalities were found in the 3 (4%) patients with meningismus. Spirochetes were found in the CSF sample of 1 patient.

Tick-borne relapsing fever, Southern Spain, 2004-2015

fever (adults-60-95 %; Children-67%), headache (adults-50-80 %; children-25%) and signs of meningismus (adults-40-80 %; children-98%) may NOT be present in all the patients.

A study on the clinical features and complications of tuberculous meningitis in a tertiary care centre of southern India

Patients can also present with seizures, cranial nerve abnormalities, visual field defects, sensory disturbances, cerebellar dysfunction, meningismus, movement disorders, and neuropsychiatric manifestations.

Altered mental status and headache in a young man

He is tachycardic (101 bpm), his blood pressure is 149/57 mm Hg with normal S1 and S2 sounds, and he has no meningismus or nystagmus.

The psychotic pot smoker

Because YF vaccine has been recognized to cause serious adverse events in persons who are immunocompromised or aged >60 years (1), information was collected on potential adverse events (e.g., fever, meningismus, mental status changes, elevated transaminases, or multisystem organ failure) that might have occurred during the 1 month after receipt of the blood products.

Other presentations could include cranial nerve palsies and symptoms/signs of elevated intracranial pressure and meningismus. (8) The granulomas were most frequently seen in the frontal lobe, although a classic location of aspergillomas is in a basal cranial location, where it is thought to arise from an infectious focus in the paranasal sinuses.