New score can differentiate aseptic from bacterial meningitis in kids: Study
Written By : Medha Baranwal
Medically Reviewed By : Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli
Published On 2020-11-11 02:07 GMT | Update On 2020-11-11 08:33 GMT
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Spain: The meningitis score for emergencies (MSE) can be used for accurate distinction of bacterial from aseptic meningitis in children having cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pleocytosis, suggests a recent study in the AAP journal Pediatrics.
New biomarkers such as C-reactive protein and procalcitonin may help in designing support tool used for identifying children with pleocytosis at high or low risk of of bacterial meningitis. Santiago Mintegi, Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain, and colleagues aimed to develop and validate a score (called MSE) to differentiate bacterial meningitis from aseptic meningitis in children with pleocytosis.
The study included 1009 children (aged between 29 days and 14 years) with meningitis admitted to 25 Spanish emergency departments. A retrospective cohort from between 2011 and 2016 was used as the derivation set and a prospective cohort recruited during 2017 and 2018 was used as the validation set.
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