[Acute meningitis caused by Streptococcus agalactiae in adult patient with a spinal fluid fistula]

Medicina (B Aires). 1997;57(1):64-6.
[Article in Spanish]

Abstract

Acute meningitis in adults caused by Streptococcus agalactiae is a rare entity. To our knowledge, there are only two cases associated with a central spinal fluid fistula published in the English literature from 1942 to the present. We report the third case. It was diagnosed in a 60-year-old woman with a twelve-year history of cerebrospinal rhinorrhea after a blunt head trauma. A CT scan of the base of the skull with administration of intrathecal contrast showed a disruption of the posterior and superior aspect of the sphenoid sinus with central spinal fluid leakage.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Acute Disease
  • Cerebrospinal Fluid Rhinorrhea / etiology*
  • Female
  • Fistula / complications*
  • Humans
  • Meningitis, Bacterial / complications*
  • Meningitis, Bacterial / diagnosis
  • Meningitis, Bacterial / microbiology
  • Middle Aged
  • Paranasal Sinus Diseases / complications
  • Sphenoid Sinus*
  • Streptococcal Infections / complications*
  • Streptococcus agalactiae*