Manifestaciones epidemiológicas y clínicas de la meningitis bacteriana en niños

• Autor: Segura Chávez, Andy Denis
• Formato: tesis de grado
• Fecha de Publicación: 2016
• Institución: Universidad Nacional de Trujillo
• Repositorio: UNITRU-Tesis
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:dspace.unitru.edu.pe:20.500.14414/8109
• Enlace del recurso: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14414/8109
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Meningitis bacteriana, niños, epidemiología

Introduction: Bacterial Meningitis (MB) is a disease with high morbidity and mortality resulting from bacterial infection of leptomeningeal that mostly affects children under 5 years. Objective: To describe the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of bacterial meningitis in children manifestations. Material and Methods: Observational, descriptive and retrospective study. From 87 HC: medical records (HC) of older children 1 month and under 18 years diagnosed with MB, hospitalized in the pediatric ward of the Regional Hospital of Trujillo between January 1993 to December 2014. Results: were reviewed, 46 met the inclusion criteria. The 56.52% were female. The most frequent age range was 1 to 11meses (52.17%) and was the largest source Trujillo (67.19%). The most common symptoms were fever (95.7%), rejection of food (84.8%) and vomiting (63%); and the most common signs were altered consciousness (75%), seizures (60.9%) and irritability (63%). Gram in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) Gram + lanceolate diplococci identified in 35, 95% and CSF culture were more frequent Streptococcus pneumoniae (26.09%) and Haemophilus influenzae (21.74%). Conclusions: Age, symptoms, signs in our study had results similar to traditional studies gender variable except where the female predominance. Pneumococcus was the most frequent agent