Multiple Brain Abscesses due to Streptococcus anginosus: Prediction of Mortality by an Imaging Severity Index Score

Multiple Brain Abscesses due to Streptococcus anginosus: Prediction of Mortality by an Imaging Severity Index Score

An elderly patient with altered mental status, brain abscesses, ventriculitis, and empyemas died of septic shock and brain abscesses secondary to Streptococcus anginosus despite aggressive treatment. An imaging severity index score with a better prognostic value than the Glasgow coma scale predicted...

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Main Author: K. O. Kragha
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2016-01-01
Series:Case Reports in Radiology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/7040352
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spelling doaj-f86fe82d120446ce999b0d2752e8b2f92020-11-25T00:10:02ZengHindawi LimitedCase Reports in Radiology2090-68622090-68702016-01-01201610.1155/2016/70403527040352Multiple Brain Abscesses due to Streptococcus anginosus: Prediction of Mortality by an Imaging Severity Index ScoreK. O. Kragha0Department of Radiology, University of Louisville, 530 S. S. Jackson Street, CCB C07, Louisville, KY 40202, USAAn elderly patient with altered mental status, brain abscesses, ventriculitis, and empyemas died of septic shock and brain abscesses secondary to Streptococcus anginosus despite aggressive treatment. An imaging severity index score with a better prognostic value than the Glasgow coma scale predicted mortality in this patient.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/7040352
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Multiple Brain Abscesses due to Streptococcus anginosus: Prediction of Mortality by an Imaging Severity Index Score
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title Multiple Brain Abscesses due to Streptococcus anginosus: Prediction of Mortality by an Imaging Severity Index Score
title_short Multiple Brain Abscesses due to Streptococcus anginosus: Prediction of Mortality by an Imaging Severity Index Score
title_full Multiple Brain Abscesses due to Streptococcus anginosus: Prediction of Mortality by an Imaging Severity Index Score
title_fullStr Multiple Brain Abscesses due to Streptococcus anginosus: Prediction of Mortality by an Imaging Severity Index Score
title_full_unstemmed Multiple Brain Abscesses due to Streptococcus anginosus: Prediction of Mortality by an Imaging Severity Index Score
title_sort multiple brain abscesses due to streptococcus anginosus: prediction of mortality by an imaging severity index score
publisher Hindawi Limited
series Case Reports in Radiology
issn 2090-6862
2090-6870
publishDate 2016-01-01
description An elderly patient with altered mental status, brain abscesses, ventriculitis, and empyemas died of septic shock and brain abscesses secondary to Streptococcus anginosus despite aggressive treatment. An imaging severity index score with a better prognostic value than the Glasgow coma scale predicted mortality in this patient.
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