Tuberculous meningitis: do modern diagnostic tools offer better prognosis prediction.
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ABSTRACT
Background:
The British Medical Research Council (BMRC) staging has been extensively used to evaluate the disease severity and establish the approximate prognosis of tuberculous meningitis.Aims:
This study aimed at analyzing the predictive accuracy for mortality and neurological sequelae of a set of clinical features, laboratory tests and imaging.Methods:
We compared the British Medical Research Council (BMRC) staging with a new scoring proposal to predict the prognosis of patients with Central Nervous System Tuberculosis. Data from Ecuador was collected. A score was built using a Spiegelhalter and Knill-Jones method and compared with BMRC staging with a ROC curve.Results:
A total of 213/310 patients (68.7%) were in BMRC stage II or III. Fifty-seven patients died (18.3%) and 101 (32.5%) survived with sequelae. The associated predictors were consciousness impairment (p= 0.010), motor deficit (p = 0.003), cisternal effacement (p=0.006) and infarcts (p=0.015). The new score based on these predictors yielded a larger area under the curve of 0.76 (95% CI 0.70-0.82), but not significantly different from the BMRC (0.72 95% CI 0.65-0.77).Conclusions:
This modern score is easy to apply and could be a sound predictor of poor prognosis. However, the availability of modern tests did not improve the ability to predict a bad outcome.
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Index:
IMSEAR (South-East Asia)
Main subject:
Prognosis
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Tuberculosis, Meningeal
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Severity of Illness Index
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Diagnostic Imaging
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Incidence
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Survival Rate
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Retrospective Studies
Type of study:
Diagnostic study
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Incidence study
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
Country/Region as subject:
South America
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Ecuador
Language:
English
Year:
2013
Type:
Article
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