Current problems of complications of bacterial meningitis

Abstract

A review of modern Russian and foreign, predominantly English-language, literature on bacterial meningitis and complications resulting from its outcome was carried out. Publications not older than 5 years published in specialized medical journals and manuals were taken into account. The review includes studies in which participants had a verified diagnosis of bacterial meningitis according to modern clinical and laboratory criteria, and were under 18 years of age at the time of the disease. Eligible observational study designs for our review included case-control observational descriptive and analytic studies and cohort studies. Studies were excluded in which participants suffered from any somatic pathologies that could affect the results or provoke complications as a result of neuroinfection. The review also included data from the Russian Reference Center for Monitoring Bacterial Meningitis for 2019.