Research Article
Acute Bacterial Meningitis in Qatar: A Hospital-Based Study from 2009 to 2013
Table 1
Demographic and clinical data of the 117 patients involved in this study.
| | Variable | Number (%), mean ± SD (range) |
| | Gender | | | M | 81 (69.2) | | F | 29 (30.8) | | Age (mean ± SD), years | 26.4 ± 22.3 (2–74) | | Age group (years) | | | <1 | 26 (22.2) | | 1–5 | 11 (9.4) | | 6–14 | 6 (5.1) | | 15–24 | 12 (10.3) | | 25–34 | 13 (11.1) | | 35–44 | 17 (14.5) | | 45–54 | 23 (19.7) | | 55–64 | 6 (5.1) | | ≥65 | 3 (2.6) | | Nationality | | | Qatari | 28 (23.9) | | Non-Qatari | 82 (76.1) | | Underlying conditions | | | Diabetes mellitus | 9 (7.7) | | Hypertension | 26 (22.2) | | Head injury | 6 (5.1) | | Neurosurgery | 54 (46.2) | | Alcoholic | 4 (3.4) | | Prematurity | 7 (6.0) | | Liver cirrhosis | 1 (0.9) | | Otitis media | 5 (4.3) | | Malignancy | 8 (6.8) | | Immunosuppression | 2 (1.7) | | Clinical presentation | | | Fever | 110 (94) | | Mental alteration | 55 (47) | | Headache | 43 (36.8) | | Vomiting | 35 (29.9) | | Meningism | 31 (26.5) | | Seizures | 23 (19.7) | | Bulging fontanel | 16 (13.7) | | Hypotension (BP < 90/60 mmHg) | 12 (10.2) | | Focal signs | 11 (9.4) | | Photophobia | 7 (6.0) | | Behavioral changes | 3 (2.6) | | Petechial rash | 3 (2.6) | | Complications | | | Hydrocephalus | 19 (16.2) | | Ischemic stroke | 5 (4.3) | | Brain abscess | 4 (3.4) | | Subdural empyema | 1 (0.9) | | Adrenal insufficiency | 1 (0.9) | | Vasculitis | 1 (0.9) |
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