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Abstract
The aim of this study was to estimate the diagnostic value of cerebrospinal fluid\blood glucose ratio in distinguishing bacterial from aseptic meningitis.
The study was done on 70 patients with meningitis we selected from them 50 patients finally diagnosed as meningitis were selected from inpatients of Menouf fever hospital, in the period from June2014 to October 2014.
Patients were classified into two groups according to etiology of disease:
group I: Composed of 25 patients with septic meningitis
group II: Composed of 25 patients with aseptic meningitis.
All patients were subjected to the following:
Thorough history, clinical examination and laboratory investigations including complete blood count, ESR and CRP, blood chemistry including random blood glucose ,liver function tests and renal function tests ,CSF analysis and calculation of CSF/blood glucose ratio.
Statistical analysis of the results revealed:
• No statistical significant differences among the studied groups as regarding age and sex.
• Fever was the most frequent symptom followed by headache, vomiting and photophobia with no statistical significant difference among the studied groups.