Emerging pathogens in the central nervous system: a cerebral abscess by Streptococcus porcinus
Brain abscesses can cause an incapacitating neurological deicit in up to 50% of patients, thus the reduction of these sequelae becomes the main goal of its timely and speciic surgical and medical treatment. With technological advances in bacteriological identiication and diagnostic imaging, the clin...
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| author | Martínez Bustamante, Daniel Pérez Cárdenas, Samuel Arteaga Treviño, Mauricio Martínez Ponce de León, Ángel Raymundo |
| author_facet | Martínez Bustamante, Daniel Pérez Cárdenas, Samuel Arteaga Treviño, Mauricio Martínez Ponce de León, Ángel Raymundo |
| author_sort | Martínez Bustamante, Daniel |
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| description | Brain abscesses can cause an incapacitating neurological deicit in up to 50% of patients, thus the reduction of these sequelae becomes the main goal of its timely and speciic surgical and medical treatment. With technological advances in bacteriological identiication and diagnostic imaging, the clinical suspicion can be conirmed, and the speciic etiological agent can be identiied in a larger number of cases. New pathogens have emerged through this process, such as Streptococcus porcinus, in which the ability to affect the central nervous system has not been documented. A clinical case is presented of a brain abscess in an immunocompetent patient, and its favorable response to surgical drainage t hrough a skull burr h ole and nee dle aspiration with antibiotic therapy (ceftriaxone, metronidazole and vancomycin) is discussed. |
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| spelling | eprints-114712016-10-26T19:25:00Z http://eprints.uanl.mx/11471/ Emerging pathogens in the central nervous system: a cerebral abscess by Streptococcus porcinus Martínez Bustamante, Daniel Pérez Cárdenas, Samuel Arteaga Treviño, Mauricio Martínez Ponce de León, Ángel Raymundo RC Medicina Interna, Psiquiatría, Neurología Brain abscesses can cause an incapacitating neurological deicit in up to 50% of patients, thus the reduction of these sequelae becomes the main goal of its timely and speciic surgical and medical treatment. With technological advances in bacteriological identiication and diagnostic imaging, the clinical suspicion can be conirmed, and the speciic etiological agent can be identiied in a larger number of cases. New pathogens have emerged through this process, such as Streptococcus porcinus, in which the ability to affect the central nervous system has not been documented. A clinical case is presented of a brain abscess in an immunocompetent patient, and its favorable response to surgical drainage t hrough a skull burr h ole and nee dle aspiration with antibiotic therapy (ceftriaxone, metronidazole and vancomycin) is discussed. UANL. Facultad de Medicina 2014 Article PeerReviewed text en cc_by_nc_nd http://eprints.uanl.mx/11471/1/X166557961467603X_S300_en.pdf http://eprints.uanl.mx/11471/1.haspreviewThumbnailVersion/X166557961467603X_S300_en.pdf Martínez Bustamante, Daniel y Pérez Cárdenas, Samuel y Arteaga Treviño, Mauricio y Martínez Ponce de León, Ángel Raymundo (2014) Emerging pathogens in the central nervous system: a cerebral abscess by Streptococcus porcinus. Medicina universitaria, 16 (65). pp. 177-180. ISSN 1665-5796 |
| spellingShingle | RC Medicina Interna, Psiquiatría, Neurología Martínez Bustamante, Daniel Pérez Cárdenas, Samuel Arteaga Treviño, Mauricio Martínez Ponce de León, Ángel Raymundo Emerging pathogens in the central nervous system: a cerebral abscess by Streptococcus porcinus |
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| title | Emerging pathogens in the central nervous system: a cerebral abscess by Streptococcus porcinus |
| title_full | Emerging pathogens in the central nervous system: a cerebral abscess by Streptococcus porcinus |
| title_fullStr | Emerging pathogens in the central nervous system: a cerebral abscess by Streptococcus porcinus |
| title_full_unstemmed | Emerging pathogens in the central nervous system: a cerebral abscess by Streptococcus porcinus |
| title_short | Emerging pathogens in the central nervous system: a cerebral abscess by Streptococcus porcinus |
| title_sort | emerging pathogens in the central nervous system a cerebral abscess by streptococcus porcinus |
| topic | RC Medicina Interna, Psiquiatría, Neurología |
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