Clinical characteristics of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia meningitis in adults: a high incidence in patients with a postneurosurgical state, long hospital staying and antibiotic use.

Objective: Stenotrophomonas (S.) maltophilia is an uncommon pathogen of adult bacterial meningitis (ABM).

Methods: The clinical characteristics of six S.

Spinal epidural abscess in adults caused by Staphylococcus aureus: clinical characteristics and prognostic factors.

Objective: Spinal epidural abscess (SEA) is a devastating infectious disease, which may result in neurologic sequelae. Staphylococcus (S.) aureus is a common pathogen of SEA.

The relationship between isolated dizziness/vertigo and the risk factors of ischemic stroke: a case control study.

Purpose: Dizziness/vertigo are important public heath care issues especially in elderly patients. Isolated dizziness/vertigo without neurological deficits has seldom been considered a symptom/sign due to vascular origin. Recently, some studies have suggested that vascular origin should be considered in cases of positional vertigo and isolated vertigo or dizziness when the etiology remains unclear.

Cerebellar bacterial brain abscess: report of eight cases.

Purpose: To analyze the clinical characteristics and therapeutic outcome of patients with solely cerebellar bacterial brain abscess (BBA).

Case Report: Eight patients with solely cerebellar BBA, collected during a period of 23 years from 210 BBA patients, were included in this study. The eight patients were five men and three women, aged 5-54 years (mean, 36.

Clinical characteristics and therapeutic outcome of Gram-negative bacterial spinal epidural abscess in adults.

Gram-negative (G(-)) bacterial spinal epidural abscess (SEA) in adults is uncommon. Of the 42 adult patients with bacterial SEA admitted to the Chang Gung Memorial Hospital - Kaohsiung, between 2003 and 2007, 12 with G(-) SEA were included in this study. Of these 12 patients, seven were men and five were women; their ages ranged between 17 years and 81 years (median=72.

Protean neuroimaging presentations in an adult with Klebsiella pneumoniae infection.

Purpose: To report on the findings of a series of cranial computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance (MR) imaging studies of a 57-years-old woman with Klebsiella (K.) pneumoniae infection.

Case Report: The patient had fever, consciousness disturbance and left hemiplegia as the initial presentations of K.

Supratentorial deep-seated bacterial brain abscess in adults: clinical characteristics and therapeutic outcomes.

Purpose: Supratentorial deep-seated bacterial brain abscess (BBA) in adults is rarely examined solely in the literature. This retrospective study is conducted to examine the clinical characteristics and therapeutic outcome of this specific group of BBA.

Methods: Eight adult patients with supratentorial deep-seated BBA, collected during a study period of 14 years (1994-2007), were enrolled.

Brainstem auditory evoked potentials study in patients with diabetes mellitus.

Objectives: To analyze the correlation between brainstem-auditory evoked potentials (BAEP) and nerve conduction (NC) studies in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM).

Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the results from the subjects who received our neurological screening test including BAEP and NC studies. A DM group and a control group were applied.

Cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis patients with and without parkinsonism: clinical characteristics and neuroimaging findings.

Parkinsonism in cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis (CTX) is rare. There are no published studies with imaging findings of dopamine transporter using (99m)Tc-[2-[[2-[[[3-(4-chlorophenyl)-8-methyl-8-azabicyclo [3,2,1] oct-2-yl] methyl] (2-mercaptoethyl) amino] ethyl] amino]-ethanethiolato(3-)-N2,N2,S2,S2]oxo-[1R-(exo-exo)] ((99m)Tc-TRODAT-1) SPECT in CTX patients. This report is on the clinical details of five genetically-proven CTX patients (two with and three without parkinsonism).

Clinical characteristics of post-neurosurgical Klebsiella pneumoniae meningitis in adults and a clinical comparison to the spontaneous form in a Taiwanese population.

A total of 46 patients (nine post-neurosurgical, 37 spontaneous) with adult bacterial meningitis (ABM) caused by Klebsiellapneumoniae infection were included in this study. The nine patients in the post-neurosurgical K. pneumoniae ABM group (seven male, two female) had a mean age of 48.

Diagnosis and management of adult bacterial meningitis.

The early use of appropriate antibiotic therapy is one of the important and explicit steps in the management of potentially fatal adult acute bacterial meningitis (ABM). Changing epidemiology of ABM, especially with regards to the change of the relative frequency of causative pathogens, has been noted in a serial of studies in Taiwan. This change may influence the choice of initial empiric antibiotic treatment.

Culture-proven bacterial meningitis in elderly patients in southern Taiwan: clinical characteristics and prognostic factors.

The epidemiologic landscape of causative pathogens and clinical characteristics of bacterial meningitis varies with several clinical factors including preceding/pre-existent medical and/or surgical conditions, modes of contraction, geographic distributions, status of vaccinations, the study time periods and differences among age groups. In order to delineate the epidemiology of bacterial meningitis in senior adults (ages > or =60 y/o) in southern Taiwan, we analyzed the clinical characteristics and therapeutic outcomes of 64 senior adults (42 men and 22 women, aged 60-80 years) with bacterial meningitis collected over a period of 13 years at our hospital. The prognostic factors between fatal and non-fatal groups of patients were compared.