Year: 2025 | Month: May | Volume: 12 | Issue: 5 | Pages: 576-582
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijrr.20250559
The Predictor Factors of Mortality in Adult with Bacterial Meningitis
Wandy Margo1, Ni Made Susilawathi1, Anak Agung Raka Sudewi1
1Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Udayana, Denpasar, Indonesia.
Corresponding Author: Wandy Margo
ABSTRACT
Meningitis is one of the infectious diseases of the central nervous system with high mortality and morbidity rates worldwide. One of the causes of meningitis is bacterial infection. Data from the Global Burden of Disease Study in 2019, there were 236,000 cases of death and 2.51 million cases of meningitis globally. Due to the high mortality from bacterial meningitis in adult, recognizing predictive factors is needed to improve monitoring and education related to the disease for sufferers. This study discusses several predictive factors of mortality in patients with bacterial meningitis, especially clinically.
Keywords: adult, bacterial meningitis, mortality, predictors,
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