Long-Term Outcome of Group B Streptococcal Meningitis
1 From the Divisions of Infectious Disease, Neurology, and Child Development, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh
Group B Streptococcus is a common cause of neonatal sepsis and meningitis. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the neurologic, psychologic, and academic status of children who had group B streptococcal meningitis and to compare these children with their siblings. Seventy-four children who acquired group B streptococcal meningitis between one day and 6 months of life formed the study population. Survivors were 3 to 18 years. old at the time of their follow-up evaluations. Twenty children (27%) died, two were institutionalized, one severely affected child died at age 2 years, 15 were assessed by phone interview, and two were lost to follow-up. Thirty-four children and 21 siblings were comprehensively evaluated with physical and neurologic examinations, hearing tests, and tests of intellectual, perceptual-motor, and behavioral-adaptive functions. Of the total population, nine children (12%) had major neurologic sequelae (spastic quadraplegia, profound mental retardation, hemiparesis, deafness, or blindness). Six children had acute hydrocephalus; two were doing well after shunt placement. In general, those children surviving group B streptococcal meningitis without major sequelae appeared to be functioning normally or comparably to their sibling in intellectual, social, and academic matters.
Key Words: group B Streptococcus • meningitis • neonate • neurologic sequelae
Submitted on January 21, 1985
Accepted on April 16, 1985
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