Doctors at Lilavati Hospital said that Saif Ali Khan was stabbed six times and that he was leaking spinal fluid. He has since undergone surgery to remove the knife and repair the leak. But what is ...

According to Johns Hopkins Medicine, untreated CSF leaks can lead to meningitis, a dangerous infection of the brain and spinal cord, making prompt repair crucial. According to Mayo Clinic ...

Doctors are warning about the unusual symptoms of a rare parasitic infection that is common in Hawaii. A New England woman ...

Risk of Infections: A CSF leak opens pathways for infections like meningitis, which can spread to the brain and spinal cord. Meningitis is a serious and potentially life-threatening condition.

The Ghana Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists (GAMLS) has appealed to the government and benevolent community, to boost the medical laboratories in the Upper West Region, for early diagnosing ...

A teenage girl presented to the hospital emergency department with a three-week history of intermittent frontal headache, which was worse in the morning and associated with nausea, vomiting, lethargy, ...

This spinal fluid leaking condition ... the outermost layer of the meninges (connective tissues that cover the brain and spinal cord). This clear, protein- and glucose-rich fluid plays a vital ...

Typical features of HSV-2 meningitis are headache, fever, stiff neck, and lymphocytic pleocytosis in the CSF. HSV-2 meningitis might be preceded by pelvic inflammatory disease, genital pain or ...

Tuberculous meningitis (TBM) is difficult to diagnose ... shorter duration of illness before presentation to hospital, and fewer CSF leukocytes – this suggests that mycobacterial genotype ...

During a lumbar puncture, spinal fluid generally is drawn from between ... between your spinal cord and the cord’s covering or the meninges when drawing fluid. The whole procedure typically ...