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Washington University Experience | INFECTION | Bacteria | Meningitis | Meningitis, complications - acute | 15A0 Case 15 History
Case 15 History ---- The patient was a 36 year old woman with unknown medical history who presented with fever, nausea, vomiting, and frontal headache. She became confused shortly thereafter and developed a fixed and dilated right pupil with seizures. Head CT showed massive brain swelling. Neurosurgical evaluation was that the patient was brain-dead. Culture showed diplococci.
