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Tuberculous meningitis: Do modern diagnostic tools offer better prognosis pbkp_rediction?

Abstract:

Background: The British Medical Research Council (BMRC) staging has been extensively used to evaluate the disease severity and establish the approximate prognosis of tuberculous meningitis. Aims: This study aimed at analyzing the pbkp_redictive accuracy for mortality and neurological sequelae of a set of clinical features, laboratory tests and imaging. Methods: We compared the British Medical Research Council (BMRC) staging with a new scoring proposal to pbkp_redict the prognosis of patients with Central Nervous System Tuberculosis. Data from Ecuador was collected. A score was built using a Spiegelhalter and Knill-Jones method and compared with BMRC staging with a ROC curve. Results: A total of 213/310 patients (68.7%) were in BMRC stage II or III. Fifty-seven patients died (18.3%) and 101 (32.5%) survived with sequelae. The associated pbkp_redictors were consciousness impairment (p= 0.010), motor deficit (p = 0.003), cisternal effacement (p=0.006) and infarcts (p=0.015). The new score based on these pbkp_redictors yielded a larger area under the curve of 0.76 (95% CI: 0.70-0.82), but not significantly different from the BMRC (0.72: 95% CI: 0.65-0.77). Conclusions: This modern score is easy to apply and could be a sound pbkp_redictor of poor prognosis. However, the availability of modern tests did not improve the ability to pbkp_redict a bad outcome. © The Tuberculosis Association of india, Inc. All rights reserved.