ArticleJournal of epidemiology and global health2020
Clinical, Imaging, and Laboratory Characteristics of Adult Mexican Patients with Tuberculous Meningitis: A Retrospective Cohort Study.
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- Microbiological diagnosis and mortality of tuberculosis meningitis: Systematic review and meta-analysis.PloS one · 2023Pooled it
- Machine learning-based analysis of prognostic factors in patients with tuberculous meningitis.BMC infectious diseases · 2026Article
- Tuberculous Meningitis Across the Lifespan.The Journal of infectious diseases · 2025Review
- Mortality predictors and diagnostic challenges in adult tuberculous meningitis: a retrospective cohort of 100 patients.Tropical medicine and health · 2025Article
- Chronic meningitis in adults: a comparison between neurotuberculosis and neurobrucellosis.BMC infectious diseases · 2024Article
- Distinguishing clinical characteristics of central nervous system tuberculosis in immunodeficient and non-immunodeficient individuals: a 12-year retrospective study.Annals of clinical microbiology and antimicrobials · 2023Article
- Paradoxical manifestations during tuberculous meningitis treatment among HIV-negative patients: a retrospective descriptive study and literature review.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2022Review
- Central nervous system tuberculosis.Current opinion in neurology · 2021Review
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Abstract
Tuberculous Meningitis (TBM) is the most common form of central nervous system Tuberculosis (TB), accounting for 5-6% of extrapulmonary TB cases. Nowadays, TBM continues to be a major topic in public health because of its high prevalence worldwide. This retrospective study aimed to describe the clinical, laboratory, and imaging characteristics at admission; and in-hospital outcome of adult Mexican patients with TBM. We collected data from medical records of patients aged ≥18 years diagnosed with TBM according to the uniform case definition for clinical research who were treated at Tijuana General Hospital between January 2015 and March 2018 and compared them according to the subtype of diagnosis. We included 41 cases (26 males, median age 28 years, range 18-57 years), 13 (31.7%) patients were HIV positive, and 21 (51.2%) were illicit drug users. At admission, 7 (17.1%) patients were in stage I, 22 (53.6%) in stage II, and 12 (29.3%) in stage III. A definitive diagnosis was established in 23 (56.1%) patients, probable in 14 (34.1%), and possible in four (9.8%). Molecular testing was positive in 83% of the cases, yielding significantly higher positive results than other microbiological studies. There were eight (19.5%) deaths, without statistical difference between mortality and not having a definitive diagnosis (
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