Statistico-mathematical appraisal of the length of the pretherapeutic interval in the prognosis of tubercular meningitis in children

The data obtained concerning the two main parameters for the prognosis of tuberculous meningitis: onset-admission interval, assessed anamnestically and electtoencephalogram performed on admission, were processed mathematically by computer. The EEG is a more reliable parameter for assessing the gravi...

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Published inRevista de igiena, bacteriologie, virusologie, parazitologie, epidemiologie, pneumoftiziologie. Pneumoftiziologia Vol. 26; no. 4; p. 225
Main Authors Bazacliu, E, Ritter, S, Tonceanu, S, Carp, G
Format Journal Article
LanguageRomanian
Published Romania 01.10.1977
Subjects
Adolescent
Child
Child, Preschool
Electroencephalography
Female
Hospitalization
Humans
Infant
Male
Prognosis
Time Factors
Tuberculosis, Meningeal - diagnosis
Tuberculosis, Meningeal - drug therapy
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Summary:The data obtained concerning the two main parameters for the prognosis of tuberculous meningitis: onset-admission interval, assessed anamnestically and electtoencephalogram performed on admission, were processed mathematically by computer. The EEG is a more reliable parameter for assessing the gravity of the lesions on admission that the anammestic data regarding the onset, at a signficance threshold of 10.48% as against 5.23%. For 11.3 days there was a close correspondence between the two parameters, after which the onset-admission variable became aleatory, the only objective index of gravity being the EEG. Statistico-mathematical processing increases the objectivity and precision of the prognosis.
ISSN:0377-5011