Fróðskaparrit - 01.01.1953, Page 113

Tuberklar í heila- og mbnuserki
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Annars var tað, umframt henda 26 áragamla bókhaldara
bert ein sjúklingur afturat sum hevði spondylitis, áðrenn
tuberklarnir tóku seg upp í heila- og monuserki. Tað var
ein 26 ára gamal fiskimaður, sum doyði av meningitis 1 ár
aftaná smittuna.
SUMMARY
The present material covers 17 cases of tuberculous
meningitis found among 517 invertors carefully investi-
gated during the period 1937 to 1947. None of the patients
received antibiotic treatment and all died during the period
of observation. Three of the meningitis cases constituted
the final stage of preceding miliary tuberculosis; the
patients were ill for between two and four months before
death. In the remaining 14 cases meningitis was primary,
death following after two to three weeks illness. The fre-
quency of meningitis among the invertors was 4 %. The
following observations were made with regard to the inter-
val between inversion and the occurrence of meningitis:
The majority, about 70 %, of the meningitis cases occur-
red within six months of inversion (1. table). With children
all cases occurred within the first year after inversion (2.
table), with adults, 11 cases in all, nine occurred within
the first year, while two appeared much later, two and a
half and three years respectively, after the primary tuber-
culous infection (3. table).
BÓKMENTIR
1. Gedde-Dahl: Tuberkuloseinfeksjonen i lys av tuberkulinmatrik-
kelen. Disputats, Oslo 1948.