Journal of Neuroinfectious Diseases
Open Access

Case Report

Complications of Adult Bacterial Meningitis and their Neurocritical Care Management – A Case Report and Short Review

Carmen Murr^1*, Silvia Schonenberger¹, Sabrina Klein² and Julian Bosel¹

¹Department of Neurology, Neurocritical Care Unit, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

²Department of Infectious Diseases, Medical Microbiology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

*Corresponding Author:

Carmen Isabelle Murr
Department of Neurology
University of Heidelberg
69120 Heidelberg, Germany
Tel: +49 6221 5639951
E-mail: carmen.murr@med.uni-heidelberg.de

Received January 27, 2015; Accepted March 28, 2015; Published March 31, 2015

Citation: Murr C, Schonenberger S, Klein S, Bosel J (2015) Complications of Adult Bacterial Meningitis and their Neurocritical Care Management– A Case Report and Short Review. J Neuroinfect Dis 6:169. doi:10.4172/2314-7326.1000170

Copyright: © 2015 Murr C, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Worldwide, bacterial meningitis is among the top ten causes of infection-related death. Although effective antimicrobial treatment is available and administered, fatality rates are still very high. Furthermore, 50% of affected patients suffer long-term sequelae due to severe complications, such as hydrocephalus, brain edema, cerebrovascular complications and ventriculitis. The following short review summarizes the most important complications and the neurocritical care management of acute bacterial meningitis in adults, illustrated by an instructive case report.