{"title":"Streptococcal Mediastinitis Following Placement of a Bravo<sup>™</sup> Capsule.","authors":"Joseph Peeden, Anna Conner, Dante Pappano","doi":"10.1177/00099228241293047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00099228241293047","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10363,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Pediatrics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142646352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Talal B Seddik, Julianne E Burns, Sharon F Chen, Hayden T Schwenk, Yungting Liao, Kimberly Horstman, Rabbia Waris, Lyn M Dos Santos
{"title":"Examining Infectious Complications Following Lumbar Puncture in Children.","authors":"Talal B Seddik, Julianne E Burns, Sharon F Chen, Hayden T Schwenk, Yungting Liao, Kimberly Horstman, Rabbia Waris, Lyn M Dos Santos","doi":"10.1177/00099228241293901","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00099228241293901","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Little is known about infectious complications of lumbar puncture (LP) in children. We reviewed records of children with bacterial meningitis, intraspinal abscess, and vertebral osteomyelitis over a 3-year period to identify infections following LP. Four children with bacterial meningitis and 1 child with vertebral osteomyelitis were identified and their clinical presentations were described. These cases were scored by infectious disease experts, using a Likert scale, for the possibility of iatrogenic causation; these scores were variable, reflecting uncertainty. The bacterial meningitis cases had repeat LPs, and the latter cerebrospinal fluid analyses were diagnostic of bacterial meningitis; the interval between the initial \"index\" LP (I-LP) and symptom onset was 8 to 10 hours in most cases. Pediatricians should be aware of this possibility, and have a low threshold to repeat LP if there is a clinical change after the I-LP that could be consistent with meningitis.</p>","PeriodicalId":10363,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Pediatrics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142646249","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}