PEDIATRICS Vol. 8 No. 6 December 1951, pp. 768-771
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FACTORS AFFECTING PROGNOSIS OF TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS TREATED WITH STREPTOMYCIN

LAURENCE FINBERG M.D.1

1 The Baltimore City Hospitals, Baltimore.

A series of 35 consecutive unselected cases of tuberculous meningitis treated with streptomycin is presented briefly. The over-all survival rate with a minimum observation period of six months is 37.2%. The longest observation on a survivor is 49 months.

It is shown that for this group of cases of tuberculous meningitis that the coexistence of roentgenographic evidence of miliary lesions in the lungs changed the prognosis for survival from 55% to 13%. It is also noted that applying this factor to the published data from other clinics seems to resolve in part some apparent discrepancies in results.

Submitted on May 14, 1951