ArticleNeurocritical care2017
Clinical and Laboratory Characteristics for the Diagnosis of Bacterial Ventriculitis After Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage.
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- Machine Learning-Based Prediction of Delayed Cerebral Ischemia and Functional Outcome in Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: The Role of CNS Infection-Related Parameters.Biomedicines · 2026Article
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- Amino acid dysregulation in cerebrospinal fluid of stroke patients serving as diagnostic biomarkers in post-neurosurgical bacterial meningitis.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Cerebrospinal fluid red blood cells and total protein are associated with clinical outcome in spontaneous subarachnoid hemorrhage.European journal of neurology · 2025Observational
- Ventriculitis incidence and outcomes in patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: a prospective observational study.Critical care science · 2025Observational
- Epidemiology and antimicrobial resistance patterns of bacterial meningitis among hospitalized patients at a tertiary care hospital in Saudi Arabia: a six-year retrospective study.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2024Article
- Broad Range Eubacterial Polymerase Chain Reaction of Cerebrospinal Fluid Reduces the Time to Exclusion of and Costs Associated with Ventriculostomy-Related Infection in Hemorrhagic Stroke.Neurocritical care · 2024Article
- Nosocomial meningitis in intensive care: a 10-year retrospective study and literature review.Acute and critical care · 2022Article
- Plasma Inflammatory Markers and Ventriculostomy-Related Infection in Patients With Hemorrhagic Stroke: A Retrospective and Descriptive Study.Frontiers in neurology · 2022Article
- Development of the Cerebrospinal Fluid in Early Stage after Hemorrhage in the Central Nervous System.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Use of Clustering to Investigate Changes in Intracranial Pressure Waveform Morphology in Patients with Ventriculitis.Acta neurochirurgica. Supplement · 2021Article
- Utility of the Cell Index in Predicting External Ventricular Drain-Related Ventriculo-Meningitis.Neurocritical care · 2020Article
- Neutrophil CD64 index in cerebrospinal fluid as a marker of bacterial ventriculitis in children with external ventricular drainage.BMC pediatrics · 2019Observational
- Antibiotic Distribution into Cerebrospinal Fluid: Can Dosing Safely Account for Drug and Disease Factors in the Treatment of Ventriculostomy-Associated Infections?Clinical pharmacokinetics · 2018Review
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Abstract
backgroundThe diagnosis of nosocomial bacterial ventriculitis in patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) can be challenging.
methodsWe performed a retrospective study on the diagnostic accuracy of clinical and laboratory characteristics for the diagnosis of bacterial ventriculitis in 209 consecutive patients with an aneurysmal SAH admitted in a tertiary referral center from 2008 to 2010. Diagnostic value of clinical characteristics and inflammatory indexes in CSF and blood were determined for three diagnostic categories: (1) no suspicion for bacterial ventriculitis; (2) clinical suspicion for bacterial ventriculitis, defined as initiation of empirical antibiotic treatment for ventriculitis, but negative CSF cultures; and (3) CSF culture-positive bacterial ventriculitis.
resultsEmpirical antibiotics for suspected ventriculitis was initiated in 48 of 209 (23 %) patients. CSF cultures were positive in 11 (5 %) patients. Within the group of suspected ventriculitis, only longer duration of CSF drainage and lower CSF red blood cell counts predicted for culture positivity. None of the other clinical features or inflammatory indexes in CSF and blood were associated with culture-proven bacterial ventriculitis.
conclusionsNosocomial bacterial ventriculitis in patients with aneurysmal SAH is often suspected but confirmed by culture in a minority of cases. Improvement of diagnostics for nosocomial bacterial ventriculitis in patients with aneurysmal SAH is needed.
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