Out of the extrapulmonary tuberculous patients, admitted to the 39 institutions of national sanatoria during the past five years (1978-1982), 29 cases (3.9%) were diag nosed as tuberculous meningitis (25 cases) and tuberculosis of central nerve system (4 cases).
According to their clinical individual cards, 21 were male and 8 were female, and the average age was 32.5 years old (1-68 years old).
Clinical and bacteriological diagnosis was mainly performed by the clinical symptolns, tuberculin skin test, brain CT scanning and tubercle bacilli in cerebrospinal fluid.
The most common symptoms elicited by the individual cards were fever, headache, disturbance of consciousness, stiffness of the neck, nausea, vomit and other neurologic symptoms.
Out of 29 cases, complicated pulmonary or other extrapulmonary active lesion, in which pulmonary one chiefly occupied, was observed in 24 cases (82.8%) at the starting point of chemotherapy.
The therapeutic effects of regimens including RFP·EINH for the tuberculous meningi tis and tuberculosis of central nerve system were observed.
The duration of these chemotherapy was about twelve months in average and re sponse to therapy indicated the marked improvement in ten cases (34.5%), but dead cases also were observed in the same numbers.
In five cases, neurologic sequelae were found and they received the surgical treat ment or physical rehabilitation for these sequelae with considerable improvement.
From the results of this study, it is emphasized that early diagnosis and initial inttensive chemotherapy including RFP·EINH for tuberculous meningitis and tuberculosis of central nerve system are necessary to bring the favorable prognosis which is considered to increase survival rate and to decrease neurologic sequelae.
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