101. Meningitis - Neurologychannel meningitis (or spinal meningitis) is an infection in the meninges and cerebrospinal fluid. Overview, Video on meningitis. meningitis http://www.neurologychannel.com/meningitis/

Home Search SiteMap Ask the Dr. ... Medical Store advertisement MENINGITIS Overview Types Incidence Risk Factors ... Find a Neurologist CONDITIONS ADHD ALS Alzheimer's Disease Autism ... Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Cephalic Disorders Cerebral Palsy Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease Chronic Pain Dementia Encephalitis Epilepsy ... Guillain-Barre Syndrome Headache Huntington's Disease Hydrocephalus Lou Gehrig's Disease ... Traumatic Brain Injury Vertigo TREATMENT OPTIONS Botulinum Toxin Therapy Epidural Injection Trigger Point Injection Vagus Nerve Stimulation RESOURCES neurologychannelMD Clinical Trials Links MDLocator ... What Is a Neurologist? Videos ABOUT US Healthcommunities.com Pressroom Testimonials print this ... email this Overview Meningitis is inflammation of the meninges that results in swelling of brain tissue and sometimes spinal tissue (spinal meningitis). Swelling inhibits the flow of blood and oxygen to brain tissue. The characteristic symptoms of meningitis are stiff neck, severe headache, and fever. The meninges are three ultrathin membranes that surround and protect the brain and a portion of the spinal cord: the outer membrane (dura mater), middle membrane (arachnoid), and inner membrane (pia mater). Types Meningitis is either infectious (contagious) or noninfectious. Infectious meningitis is classified as viral, bacterial, fungal, or parasitic, depending on the type of organism causing the infection.

102. Virale Meningitis De Landelijke Co¶rdinatiestructuur Infectieziektebetrijding geeft informatie over virale nekkramp. http://www.infectieziekten.info/index.php3?lokatie=http://www.infectieziekten.in

103. Meningitis Note All links within content go to MayoClinic.com. Diseases and Conditions. meningitis. Another 700 people develop pneumococcal meningitis. http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/library/DS/00118.html

International Edition MEMBER SERVICES The Web CNN.com Home Page World U.S. Weather ... Special Reports SERVICES Video E-mail Services CNNtoGO Contact Us SEARCH Web CNN.com In association with: INFECTIOUS DISEASE Bacterial Lyme disease Meningitis Pneumonia Toxic shock syndrome ... Diphtheria INFECTIOUS DISEASE Viral Illnesses Chickenpox Gastroenteritis Shingles Meningitis ... Plantar warts INFORMATION CENTERS: Pick a category Health Centers Family Health Men's Health Women's Health Children's Health Seniors' Health Working Life Pain Management Condition Centers Immune System Allergy Alzheimer's Arthritis Respiratory System Cancer Endocrine System Digestive System Heart and Blood Infectious Disease Mental Health Note: All links within content go to MayoClinic.com Diseases and Conditions Meningitis From MayoClinic.com Special to CNN.com Overview Every year in the United States, nearly 300 people die of meningococcal meningitis and many more experience serious complications from this disease. Another 700 people develop pneumococcal meningitis. In both cases, most of those affected are children under the age of 5. Meningitis is an infection and inflammation of the membranes (meninges) and fluid (cerebrospinal fluid) surrounding your brain and spinal cord. Meningitis is most often caused by bacteria or viruses. Bacterial meningitis is usually much more serious than viral meningitis. Most cases of meningitis occur when bacteria from an infection in another part of your body travel through your bloodstream to your brain and spinal cord. But bacteria can also spread directly to your brain or spine from a severe head injury or from an infection in your ear, nose or teeth.

104. CNN.com - Immunizations Ordered To Prevent Meningitis-related Outbreak - June 5, CNN http://cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/06/05/ohio.meningitis/index.html

MAIN PAGE WORLD U.S. WEATHER ... ABOUT US CNN TV what's on show transcripts CNN Headline News CNN International ... askCNN EDITIONS CNN.com Asia CNN.com Europe set your edition Languages Time, Inc. Time.com People Fortune EW Immunizations ordered to prevent meningitis-related outbreak ALLIANCE, Ohio (CNN) Health officials Tuesday ordered a mass immunization program for thousands of people against a bacterial infection that can cause meningitis after two teens died of the infection. Last weekend more than 37,000 residents flocked to two hospitals to get preventative antibiotics. Distribution stopped Monday morning when health officials said the exposure period had expired. The prophylactic antibiotics were given after two youths a 15-year-old boy and a 16-year-old girl died over Memorial Day weekend of Neisseria meningitides group c, a strain of bacteria that can cause meningitis. The boy died of meningitis; the girl died of meningococcemia, an infection of the blood that is more dangerous than meningitis. The two students attended the same high school. ALSO Officials weigh vaccinations in meningitis scare RESOURCES Learn more about meningitis from the CDC A third teen-ager an 18-year-old girl who attends a different school remains at Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron.

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106. InteliHealth: Meningitis listed and crossreferenced in an AZ format. meningitis. Health A to Z, Reviewed by the Faculty of Harvard Medical School meningitis http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/WSIHW000/9339/10302.html

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107. CNN.com - N.H. Struggles With Bacterial Meningitis Cases - Dec. 29, 2003 CNN http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/12/29/meningitis.cases.ap/index.html

International Edition MEMBER SERVICES The Web CNN.com Home Page World U.S. Weather ... Special Reports SERVICES Video E-mail Services CNNtoGO Contact Us SEARCH Web CNN.com N.H. struggles with bacterial meningitis cases Students and staff at Monadnock Regional High School in Swanzey, New Hampshire, line up Friday to receive antibiotics. Story Tools HEALTH LIBRARY Health Library YOUR E-MAIL ALERTS New Hampshire Diseases Schools Health care policy or Create your own Manage alerts What is this? CONCORD, New Hampshire (AP) Scientists are examining a strain of bacterial meningitis and trying to make links among five teenagers who contracted the brain-swelling disease. One of them has died. State health officials planned to alert emergency room personnel statewide Monday about the cases and urge them to watch for signs of additional infections, according to state epidemiologist Jesse Greenblatt. He said it is unusual to have so many cases in such a short period. Meningitis, which causes the brain to swell, is spread by fairly intimate contact, such as kissing or sharing utensils or water bottles. It is not easily transmitted through sneezing and coughing. Rachael Perry, 18, died Saturday at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, where the woman, from the southern community of Bennington, had been hospitalized since Christmas, Greenblatt said.

108. Spencer Dayman Meningitis UK Promotes and supports research into the causes and treatment of all strains of meningitis and associated infections; includes information about the condition. http://www.spencerdayman.org.uk/

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111. MayoClinic.com - Meningitis High fever, headache and stiff neck are common signs and symptoms of meningitis — an infection of a person s spinal cord and the fluid that surrounds the http://www.mayoclinic.com/invoke.cfm?id=DS00118

112. CNN - Dorm Freshmen At Highest Meningitis Risk, CDC Says - June 1, 1999 CNN http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9906/01/college.meningitis/index.html

[an error occurred while processing this directive] MAIN PAGE WORLD U.S. LOCAL ... daily almanac MULTIMEDIA: video video archive audio multimedia showcase ... more services E-MAIL: Subscribe to one of our news e-mail lists. Enter your address: document.write(' '); Or: Get a free e-mail account E-MAIL DISCUSSION: message boards chat feedback CNN WEB SITES: AsiaNow Svenska Norge Danmark ... Italian FASTER ACCESS: europe japan TIME INC. SITES: Go To ... Time.com People Money Fortune EW CNN NETWORKS: more networks transcripts SITE INFO: help contents search ad info ... jobs WEB SERVICES: health > story page Dorm freshmen at highest meningitis risk, CDC says June 1, 1999 Web posted at: 12:34 p.m. EDT (1634 GMT) From Medical Correspondent Rhonda Rowland PHILADELPHIA (CNN) College freshmen living in dormitories have a more than six times greater risk of bacterial meningitis than other college students, according to a new national study released Tuesday. The findings were reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) at the annual meeting of the American College Health Association (ACHA). Bacterial meningitis inflames the tissue and fluid surrounding the brain and spinal canal and causes flu-like symptoms headache, stiff neck and fever.

113. Discovery Health Meningitis In Infants And Children meningitis is an inflammation of the membranes that line the brain and spinal cord. search, meningitis in infants and children. By Adam Brochert, MD. http://health.discovery.com/diseasesandcond/encyclopedia/2714.html

114. Meningitis. Preguntas Frecuentes (padres). Web AEPap Translate this page meningitis. Preguntas frecuentes sobre la salud de los hijos. ¿Qué es la meningitis? Debo vacunar a mi hijo contra la meningitis? ¿Qué es la meningitis? http://www.aepap.org/faqpad/faqpad-meningitis.htm

volver a la lista Meningitis Preguntas frecuentes sobre la salud de los hijos ¿Qué es la meningitis? ¿Qué puedo hacer para detectarla? ¿Cuándo debo consultar al pediatra? ¿Cómo se trata? ¿Qué hay que hacer si mi hijo ha estado en contacto con un enfermo? ¿Debo vacunar a mi hijo contra la meningitis? ¿Qué es la meningitis? Es una enfermedad poco frecuente, pero muy temida, en la que se infectan las membranas (meninges) que envuelven el cerebro y la médula espinal. Hay dos grandes grupos de meningitis, que sólo se parecen en el nombre: las producidas por virus (meningitis víricas), que son benignas, y las producidas por bacterias (meningitis bacterianas), que pueden ser graves, provocando secuelas, sobre todo sordera, y en algún caso incluso la muerte. Los dos microbios que con mayor frecuencia producen meningitis bacteriana son el Haemophilus influenzae tipo b y la Neisseria meningitidis

115. Contusalud.com/ Enfermedades: Meningitis Bacteriana Informa sobre el desarrollo de la enfermedad, factores predisponentes, su diagn³stico y el tratamiento. http://www.contusalud.com/website/folder/sepa_enfermedades_meningitis.htm

Embarazo Enfermedades Exámenes Odontología ... Tratamientos ENFERMEDADES CONTENIDO EN ORDEN ALFABETICO: ALCOHOLISMO ALERGIAS ALZHEIMER ANEMIA ... ANOREXIA ARTERIOSCLEROSIS ARTRITIS: INTRODUCCION ARTRITIS REUMATOIDEA ... ULCERA PEPTICA FACTORES DE RIESGO DIABETES HIPERTENSION ENFERMEDADES PUBLICIDAD ENFERMEDADES ENFERMEDADES ENFERMEDADES ENFERMEDADES MENINGITIS BACTERIANA DEFINICION La meningitis bacteriana se define como una enfermedad infecciosa del sistema nervioso central que afecta el encéfalo y las meninges (capas que recubren el cerebro). Este padecimiento repercute con mayor frecuencia sobre recién nacidos y lactantes que en conjunto conforman el 75% de los casos. A pesar de diversos recursos para la revisión de diagnostico, de la aparición y el uso de terapias coadyuvantes del manejo en unidades de cuidado intensivo y del empleo de nuevos antimicrobianos, la letalidad asociada a este padecimiento continua siendo muy elevada, con una variación entre el 15 y el 30%.

116. NetDoktor.at - Krankheiten: Meningitis (Hirnhautentzündung) Translate this page Klicken Sie hier! meningitis (Hirnhautentzündung) OA Dr. Michael Augustin. Was ist eine meningitis? meningitis.jpg (30081 bytes http://www.netdoktor.at/Krankheiten/Fakta/meningitis.htm

bezahlte Anzeige Meningitis (Hirnhautentzündung) OA Dr. Michael Augustin Was ist eine Meningitis? Das Bild zeigt das Gehirn im Querschnitt. Das Gehirn ist von Hirnhäuten umgeben (siehe Pfeil). In genau diesen Hirnhäuten kann eine Entzündung entstehen. Gehirn und Rückenmark sind außen von einer Schutzhülle aus Bindegewebe umgeben, den so genannten Hirn- bzw. Rückenmarkshäuten (Meningen). Diese können sich durch unterschiedliche Erreger entzünden, man spricht dann von einer Meningitis. Ist auch das Gehirn selbst mitbetroffen, wird dies Meningoenzephalitis genannt (encephalon, gr. = Gehirn). Eine Meningitis ist immer als Notfall zu betrachten, da sie sich innerhalb weniger Stunden massiv ausbreiten und unbehandelt zum Tod führen kann! Bei einem Auftreten der unten genannten Symptome ist daher unmittelbar ein Arzt zu konsultieren. Wie bekommen Sie Meningitis? Die häufigsten Erreger sind Bakterien und Viren, seltener sind auch Pilze oder Parasiten die Ursache. Unter den Bakterien kommen vor allem Meningokokken, Pneumokokken und Haemophilus influenzae in Frage. Es ist nicht geklärt, warum völlig gesunde Menschen plötzlich eine bakterielle Meningitis bekommen. Die Keime werden im allgemeinen durch Tröpfcheninfektion, d.h. etwa durch Niesen oder Husten, übertragen. Gelegentlich kann es aber auch zu einer direkten Fortleitung kommen, so zum Beispiel bei Kopfverletzungen mit Schädelbruch, aber auch bei

117. Tractament De La Meningitis Bacteriana En Pediatria Informaci³ de l'Hospital de Sabadell. http://www.cspt.es/webcspt/CMRAI/medicir/InfProf/DocPautesProtocols/mening.htm

TRACTAMENT DE LA MENINGITIS BACTERIANA EN PEDIATRIA Pediatre Hospital de Sabadell Etiologia: N.meningitidis, S.pneumoniae i H.influenzae. S.agalactiae, E.coli i L.monocytogenes N.meningitidis H.influenzae S.pneumoniae N.meningitidis 1.- SI NO TENIM EL FROTIS: 1m-3m: Ampicil.lina + Cefotaxima 2.- SI TENIM EL FROTIS: S.pneumoniae: H.influenzae: N.meningitidis: S.agalactiae: Ampicil.lina + Gentamicina L.monocytogenes: Ampicil.lina + Gentamicina P.aeruginosa/Acinetobacter: Ceftazidima + Gentamicina Ampicil.lina: 150-200mg/k/d (x6h). Gentamicina: 5-7..5mg/k/dia en nadons i lactants Ceftriaxona: 100mg/k/dia (x12-24h). Ceftazidima: 150mg/k/dia (x6h). Vancomicina: 60mg/k/dia (x6h). S.pneumoniae: 10-14 dies H.influenzae: 7-10 dies N.meningitidis: 7 dies S.agalactiae: 14-21 dies L.monocytogenes: 14-21 dies Altres Bacils gram-negatius: 21 dies Corticoides: H.influenzae podriem acceptat aquest tractament en totes les meningitis en l'edat infantil. La pauta acceptada seria: - dosis: 0.6mg/k/dia , cada 6h, durant 2-4 dies. Es recomana PL de control a: - Tots els nadons, ales 24-35h.

118. Meningitis - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia meningitis. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. meningitis is inflammation of the sheaths and membranes (meninges) covering the brain and the spinal cord. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meningitis

Meningitis From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. All Wikimedia projects will be down for approximately 30 minutes. We apologise for the inconvenience. Meningitis is inflammation of the membranes ( meninges ) covering the brain and the spinal cord . Although the most common causes are infection (either bacterial or viral ), chemical agents and even tumor cells may cause meningitis. Encephalitis and brain abscess can complicate infective meningitis. Major bacteria that cause meningitis are Streptococcus pneumoniae Haemophilus influenzae staphylococcus and meningococcus The classical symptoms of meningitis are headache, neck stiffness and photophobia (the trio are called " meningism "). An altered level of consciousness or other neurological deficits may be present depending on the severity of the disease. A lumbar puncture to obtain cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is usually indicated to determine the cause and direct appropriate treatment. Meningitis is a medical emergency, being a condition with a high mortality rate if untreated. The cause is most commonly a bacterial infection sensitive to antibiotics . Patients with suspected meningitis should optimally initially have a CT scan to help determine if there is a raised intracranial pressure that might cause a serious or fatal brain herniation during lumbar puncture. If there are no signs of elevated central nervous system pressure demonstrated on the CT scan, a

119. Aseptic Meningitis In The Newborn And Young Infant - May 15, 1999 - American Aca May 15, 1999 AFP. Aseptic meningitis in the Newborn and Young Infant. CECILIA TABLE 1 Signs and Symptoms of meningitis in Infants. Fever http://www.aafp.org/afp/990515ap/2761.html

Advanced Search Aseptic Meningitis in the Newborn and Young Infant CECILIA M.R. NORRIS, M.D. Williamsburg, Iowa PETER G. DANIS, M.D., and TESSA D. GARDNER, M.D. St. John's Mercy Medical Center St. Louis, Missouri W hen a newborn or young infant presents with fever and lethargy or irritability, meningitis is a primary concern. Bacterial meningitis has an incidence of about 20 to 100 cases per 100,000 live births during the newborn period. Aseptic meningitis is even more common. Although most types of aseptic meningitis do not cause serious sequelae, some types result in significant morbidity and mortality if not properly diagnosed and treated. Physicians should maintain a high index of suspicion for these treatable causes. TABLE 1 Signs and Symptoms of Meningitis in Infants Fever or hypothermia (temperature may also be normal) Poor feeding Irritability or lethargy Seizures Rash (petechial, vesicular, macular, mucosal) Tachypnea or apnea Jaundice Bulging fontanelle (late) Vomiting or diarrhea Altered sleep pattern Information from Lipton JD, Schafermeyer RW. Evolving concepts in pediatric bacterial meningitispart I: pathophysiology and diagnosis. Ann Emerg Med 1993;22:1602-15, and Feigin RD, McCracken GH Jr, Klein JO. Diagnosis and management of meningitis. Pediatr Infect Dis J 1992;11:785-814.

120. McKenzie Meningitis Foundation, Wyoming The McKenzie meningitis Foundation promotes awareness of the dangers of meningococcal meningitis and to help high school seniors be vaccinated against the http://www.themckenziefoundation.org/

Promoting education and awareness of a vaccine-preventable disease A Non-Profit 501 (C) (3) Corporation McKenzie Hartwig Meningitis Research Foundation National Meningitis ... Disease Control Mission: The McKenzie Meningitis Foundation, a nonprofit corporation, is for charitable, medical, educational and scientific purposes, in honor of McKenzie Carter Hartwig. Objectives: To give the meningitis vaccination to every graduating/college-bound high school senior in Wyoming, optional and free of charge. Click here for more info Goals: To build an endowment. To raise enough money so the interest will pay the $60 vaccination and education for 6,050 Wyoming seniors, every year. Wyoming Graduate Program What is Meningitis? About McKenzie How You Can Help ... Contact Us About McKenzie McKenzie Hartwig attended high school in Pinedale, Wyoming and graduated in 2001. McKenzie was a beautiful, vivacious 18-year old, who was named Wyoming All State in Volleyball, Basketball and Track in 2001. She played the flute and piccolo; could speak two languages, loved to travel, and was an honor student. She was a freshman at the University of South Dakota on a volleyball scholarship with business and foreign language classes.

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