Key result
A 7-week-old infant with coxsackie B1 meningitis developed ventriculitis with marked cerebrospinal fluid pleocytosis and hypoglycorrhachia, mimicking acute bacterial meningitis.
Population
7-week-old white male infant with coxsackie B1 meningitis and ventriculitis
Design
Case_report
Follow-up
8 days (hospitalization)
Authors
Loading...
Clinicians should consider viral etiologies despite marked pleocytosis and hypoglycorrhachia in young infants; leaves open the prevalence of ventriculitis in enteroviral meningitis.
Case Report (n=1)
No
Coxsackievirus meningitis can present with marked CSF pleocytosis mimicking bacterial meningitis and can be associated with ventriculitis.
Erickson et al. (2003) conducted a case report in Coxsackie B1 meningitis and ventriculitis (n=1). Coxsackie B1 infection was evaluated on Development of ventriculitis and meningitis. A 7-week-old infant with coxsackie B1 meningitis developed ventriculitis with marked cerebrospinal fluid pleocytosis and hypoglycorrhachia, mimicking acute bacterial meningitis.
Synapse has enriched 5 closely related papers on similar clinical questions. Consider them for comparative context: