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The Effect of Therapeutic Lumbar Punctures on Acute Mortality From Cryptococcal Meningitis

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2014

Year

Melissa A. Rolfes, Kathy Huppler Hullsiek, Joshua Rhein, Henry W. Nabeta, Kabanda Taseera, Charlotte Schutz, Abdu K Musubire, Radha Rajasingham, Darlisha A Williams, Friedrich Thienemann,
Clinical Infectious Diseases

Abstract

Therapeutic LPs were associated with a 69% relative improvement in survival, regardless of initial intracranial pressure. The role of therapeutic LPs should be reevaluated.

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