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BMJ Publishing Group, Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 10(78), p. 1092-1096, 2007

DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2006.110023

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Cognitive outcome in adults after bacterial meningitis

Journal article published in 2007 by Martine Hoogman ORCID, Diederik van de Beek ORCID, D. van de Beek, Martijn Weisfelt, Jan de Gans, J. de Gans, Ben Schmand
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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate cognitive outcome in adult survivors of bacterial meningitis. METHODS: Data from three prospective multicentre studies were pooled and reanalysed, involving 155 adults surviving bacterial meningitis (79 after pneumococcal and 76 after meningococcal meningitis) and 72 healthy controls. RESULTS: Cognitive impairment was found in 32% of patients and this proportion was similar for survivors of pneumococcal and meningococcal meningitis. Survivors of pneumococcal meningitis performed worse on memory tasks (p