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DIAGNOSTICS
Volume 13, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics13071313
Keywords
bacterial meningitis; sepsis; cerebrospinal fluid; lactate; outcome
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Community-acquired bacterial meningitis is a serious disease that can lead to severe complications and death. This study investigated the diagnostic performance of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) parameters for sepsis in patients with community-acquired bacterial meningitis.
Community-acquired bacterial meningitis conveys significant morbidity and mortality due to intracranial and systemic complications, and sepsis is a major contributor to the latter. While cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis is essential in the diagnosis of bacterial meningitis, its predictive utility for detection of sepsis is unknown. We investigated the diagnostic performance of CSF parameters for sepsis defined by the Sepsis-3 criteria in a retrospective cohort of patients with community-acquired bacterial meningitis. Among 103 patients, 69.5% developed sepsis. CSF lactate was associated with sepsis with an odds ratio of 1.11 (p = 0.022), while CSF cell counts, glucose and protein levels were not (all p > 0.4). Employing the optimal cutoff of 8.2 mmol/L, elevated CSF lactate resulted in a sensitivity of 81.5% and specificity of 61.5% for sepsis. In exploratory analyses, CSF lactate was also associated with in-hospital mortality with an odds ratio of 1.21 (p = 0.011). Elevated CSF lactate might contribute to early diagnosis of sepsis as well as prognostication in patients with community-acquired bacterial meningitis.
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