Nervous System Infections

Nervous System Infections — Expert Level Reference

How it begins

De la barrera hematoencefálica a la decisión terapéutica urgente: meningitis, encefalitis, abscesos y lesiones focales; el análisis del LCR como prueba reina; los agentes según el huésped; el tratamiento antimicrobiano empírico y dirigido, los corticoides, las complicaciones y la prevención, con correlación clínica de nivel experto.

What it covers

1. Concepts, invasion pathways and clinical syndromes
2. · Barriers and routes of invasion
3. · The major neuroinfectious syndromes
4. Cerebrospinal fluid and lumbar puncture
5. · The CSF pattern according to the agent
6. · Cranial CT before lumbar puncture?
7. · Microbiological studies of CSF
8. Acute bacterial meningitis
9. · Etiology according to age and context
10. · Clinical manifestations
11. · Empirical treatment and role of corticosteroids
12. Viral meningitis and aseptic meningitis
13. · Viral etiology
14. · Clinical and management
15. Subacute and chronic meningitis
16. · Tuberculous meningitis
17. · Fungal meningitis
18. · Other causes of chronic meningitis
19. Encephalitis
20. · Herpetic encephalitis (HSV-1)
21. · Other infectious encephalitis
22. Brain abscess and empyemas
23. · Pathogenesis and microbiology
24. · Diagnosis and treatment
25. · Subdural empyema and spinal epidural abscess
26. Parasitic and other focal lesions
27. · Neurocysticercosis
28. · Other parasitosis and focal lesions
29. Neuroinfections in the immunocompromised and in HIV
30. · HIV and CD4 count as a diagnostic compass
31. · The great differential: focal lesion with ring enhancement in HIV
32. · Other entities of advanced HIV
33. Neuroinfections due to spirochetes: neurosyphilis and neuroborreliosis
34. · Neurosyphilis
35. · Neuroborreliosis (Lyme disease)
36. Toxin-mediated and neurally transmitted infections
37. · Tetanus
38. · Botulism
39. · Rage
40. Antimicrobial treatment: empirical and targeted
41. · Empirical treatment of bacterial meningitis according to the context
42. · Directed treatment and duration
43. · Adjuvant corticosteroids
44. Complications, emergencies and after-effects
45. · Acute complications
46. · Aftermath
47. Prevention: vaccination and chemoprophylaxis
48. · Vaccination
49. · Contact chemoprophylaxis
50. Diagnostic integration and synthesis
51. · Etiological orientation master table