caa a22 4500 477107168 CHVBK 20180405111557.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19960701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF01411262 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF01411262 Jamjoom A. Division of Neurosurgery, King Khalid University Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia aut Short course antimicrobial therapy in intracranial abscess [Elektronische Daten] [A. Jamjoom] Summary: In this study, the author attempts to question the necessity of prolonged antimicrobial treatment for intracranial abscess. The C reactive protein (CRP) was measured serially in 26 patients with intracranial abscess. All patients had undergone surgery and were treated with antimicrobial therapy. The CRP was elevated in 20 (77%) patients and its return to normal after treatment correlated with a good recovery. In 3 (12%) patients a persistently high CRP level postoperatively coincided with reformation of the abscess. A transient rise in the CRP value during decrease to normal was due to deep venous thrombosis in 2 (8%) patients. The return of the CRP to normal in conjunction with improvement of the patient's clinical condition and evidence of resolution of the abscess on CT scan were used as a guideline to stop antibiotics early. The antimicrobial therapy of the patients in this series ranged from 11-30 (mean 20) days and the follow up from 6-36 (median 21) months; there have been no recurrences. Springer-Verlag, 1996 Brain abscess nationallicence subdural empyema nationallicence C reactive protein nationallicence antimicrobial therapy nationallicence Acta Neurochirurgica Springer-Verlag 138/7(1996-07-01), 835-839 0001-6268 138:7<835 1996 138 701 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01411262 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01411262 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Jamjoom A. Division of Neurosurgery, King Khalid University Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Acta Neurochirurgica Springer-Verlag 138/7(1996-07-01), 835-839 0001-6268 138:7<835 1996 138 701 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer