Retroperitoneal infection complicated by bacterial meningitis and ventriculitis with secondary brainstem infarction.

Retroperitoneal abscesses have been previously reported to cause infectious meningitis. Cerebral infarction is a known complication of basilar meningitis. We present a case where a comatose patient with a known retroperitoneal abscess was diagnosed via Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) with extensive brainstem infarction secondary to basilar meningitis.

Citation

Joshua Z Willey, Shyam Prabhakaran, Robert DelaPaz. Retroperitoneal infection complicated by bacterial meningitis and ventriculitis with secondary brainstem infarction. Neurocritical care. 2007;6(3):192-4

Mesh Tags

PMID: 17572862

search → result