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A 27 month old child presented with left hemiplegia and was found to have deep cerebral venous thrombosis. The deep cerebral venous thrombosis resolved on warfarin. Elevated and fluctuating anticardiolipin antibodies as well as protein S deficiency were detected.
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Antibodies, Anticardiolipin/analysis , Diseases in Twins , Hemiplegia/complications , Intracranial Embolism and Thrombosis/complications , Protein S Deficiency/complications , Child, Preschool , Female , Humans , Intracranial Embolism and Thrombosis/diagnosis , Intracranial Embolism and Thrombosis/immunology , Protein S Deficiency/diagnosis , Protein S Deficiency/immunology , Twins, MonozygoticABSTRACT
A case of pneumococcal meningitis in association with sphenoidal sinusitis is described. A focal gas collection was demonstrated adjacent to the posterior clinoid process. No discernible breach of the sphenoidal sinus walls could be shown.
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Meningitis, Pneumococcal/etiology , Sella Turcica/diagnostic imaging , Sphenoid Sinusitis/complications , Child , Ethmoid Sinusitis/complications , Gases , Humans , Male , Meningitis, Pneumococcal/diagnostic imaging , Sphenoid Sinusitis/diagnostic imaging , Tomography, X-Ray ComputedABSTRACT
The incidence, aetiologic organism and mortality associated with neonatal septicaemia were retrospectively reviewed over a seven year period (June 1983 to July 1990). Trends with time were evaluated by dividing the study period in half. Although there was no significant change in the incidence of septicaemia during the study period (3.59 vs 3.40 per 1000 livebirths), there was a marked increase in the numbers of very low birthweight infants developing early onset group B streptococcal sepsis and an associated increase in mortality.