[Neonatal meningitis. Study of 26 cases and a review of its sequelae after 5 years]. / Meningitis neonatal. Estudio de 26 casos y revisión de sus secuelas a los cinco años.

Twenty-six cases of neonatal meningitis in term newborns are studied. Incidence, etiological features, treatment, clinical and biochemical evolution and mortality are analysed. Lief motif of this paper is the search for deficits in psychomotor growth in propositi of four and six years old, finding an important relation between neonatal bacterial meningitis and neuropsychological deficits (hyperkinesia, perceptive area impairment, reading-writing disorders, etc.) in contrast to the good evolution of lymphocytic meningitis.