Hypothermia due to transient hypothalamic dysfunction in tuberculous meningitis with hydrocephalus

1 January 1992

journal article
case report
Published by Taylor & Francis in British Journal Of Neurosurgery

Vol. 6 (4) , 385-387
https://doi.org/10.3109/02688699209023801

Abstract

We report two patients with tuberculous meningitis and hydrocephalus who developed hypothermia that reversed after inserting a ventricular shunt for the hydrocephalus. Pressure on the thermoregulatory centre in the posterior hypothalamus near the dilated third ventricle might have been responsible. One patient developed hypotension during the transient hypothermia, which persisted and proved fatal.

Keywords

MENINGITIS
HYDROCEPHALUS
TUBERCULOUS
HYPOTHALAMIC DYSFUNCTION
DUE TO TRANSIENT
HYPOTHERMIA DUE

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