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## Objectives: To perform a cross-sectional cohort study on long-term neurologic, cognitive and quality-of-life outcome in adults surviving pneumococcal meningitis. ## Methods: Adult survivors of community-acquired pneumococcal meningitis from a dutch nationwide prospective cohort study were evaluated 1 to 5 years after acute illness. the control group consisted of partners or proxies of patients. neurologic examination was performed and cognitive domains were tested with the vienna test system cognitive basic assessment test set (vts cogbat). the research and development (rand)-36 and adapted cognitive and emotional consequences of stroke (clce)-24 questionnaires assessed perceived cognitive functioning and quality of life. differences between group scores were tested with multivariate analyses of variance. ## Results: A total of 80 pneumococcal meningitis patients and 69 controls were evaluated. after a median of 2 years (interquartile range, 2-3) after acute illness, 27 (34%) of 79 patients had persistent neurologic sequelae, most commonly hearing loss (21/79, 27%). on overall neuropsychologic evaluation, patients performed worse than the controls (mancova; p 0.008), with alertn

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Author

A.T. Kloek; M.C. Brouwer; B. Schmand; M.W.T. Tanck; D. van de Beek

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Elsevier ; Elsevier Limited; Elsevier BV; Test accounts (ISSN 1198-743X)

Published

2020

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)