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Volume 3 Issue 1 (January-March) 2014

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Evaluation of CRP level in patients with meningitis
Dr. Sunit Arora

Background:Meningitis is defined as an infection that mostly affects the subarachnoid space and is linked to an inflammatory process in the central nervous system that results in seizures, elevated intracranial pressure, and diminished or absent awareness. Materials & Methods:98 patients of meningitis of both genderswere diagnosed using the Careggi score (BM-CASCO) and Thwaites diagnostic grading. Routine CSF and blood tests were performed on the patients. Results: Out of 98 patients, males were 50 and females were 48. The etiology of meningitis was cryptococcal in 5, scrub typhus in 5, paraneoplastic in 16, bacterial in 32, tubercular in 26, and viral in 14 cases. The common clinical findings in patients were fever seen in 167, headache in 52, and loss of consciousness in 43, vomiting in 30, and seizures in 19 patients. The difference was significant (P< 0.05). The mean CRP level in cryptococcal was 0.35 mg/dl, in scrub typhus was 0.27, in paraneoplastic was 0.23, in bacterial meningitis was 3, in tubercular was 0.75, and in viral was 0.31. The difference was significant (P< 0.05). Conclusion: In contrast to other types of meningitis, the tubercular variety exhibited the highest level of CRP.

 
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