Causes and Management of Aseptic Meningitis : A Retrospective Cohort Study in Strasbourg University Hospital

University Hospital, Strasbourg, France300 enrolled

Overview

The diagnostic and therapeutic management of patients with aseptic meningitis is a challenge for the practitioner. There are many etiologies of this condition (infectious, inflammatory, neoplastic, drug-induced), which it is necessary to know how to evoke and look for specifically.

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

300

Conditions

Aseptic Meningitis

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion criteria: * Major subject (≥18 years old) * Subject with aseptic meningitis (CSF pleocytosis, negative bacteriology) from January 2015 to October 2020, at HUS * Subject having not expressed, after being informed, their opposition to the reuse of their data for the purposes of this research. Exclusion criteria: * Subject who expressed their opposition to participating in the study * Subject under guardianship or curatorship * Subject under safeguard of justice * Positive VZV, HSV, or Enterovirus PCR in CSF * CSF analysis performed as part of the assessment of a known pathology * Traumatic or surgical etiology

Locations (1)

Service de Médecine interne et d'Immunologie Clinique - CHU de Strasbourg - France

Strasbourg, France

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Retrospective study of the etiologies of aseptic meningitis infection in Alsace

Time frame: Files analysed retrospectively from January 01, 2015 to October 31, 2020 will be examined

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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