Brain abscess surgical treatment
- Author:
Nguyen Xuan Binh
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Brain abscess surgery
- MeSH:
Brain Abscess;
Therapeutics;
Surgery
- From:Journal Ho Chi Minh Medical
2005;9(1):43-48
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
A retrospective study was carried out on 120 patients with brain abscess treated at Cho Ray Hospital from Oct 2000 to Feb 2003. 91% patients were hospitalized on emergency. The patients were diagnosed easily and quickly brain abscess by CT. 80 patients (70.8%) underwent emergency surgeries and the commonest applied technique (73.3%) was punction and pus drainage. Antibiotic were indicated suitably for patients, corticoids were prescribed for 31.6% patients with severe brain edema, antiepileptic drugs were given for patients with convulsions. Twelve patients (10%) died because of too late hospitalizations with general complications and/or brain hernia. Patients with brain abscess were commonly arrived late; the majority of them were admitted on emergency. Although having CT for accurate diagnosis and surgery and new antibiotic generations, the mortality rate is still high
