[Posttraumatic purulent meningitis in patients treated at the Clinic for Infectious Diseases at the Rijeka Clinical Center, 1980-1989].

During the period from 1980 to 1989 seven patients with posttraumatic purulent meningitis (PTPM) were treated at the Clinic for Infectious Diseases of Rijeka Clinical Centre. These accounted for 11.1% of total purulent meningitis cases of the same period. Three PTPM patients had recurrent attacks of meningitis. The age range of was the PTPM patients from 5 to 49 years; men prevailed in the ratio of 6 to 1. The etiology was confirmed in five cases (in four Streptococcus pneumoniae, in one Haemophilus influenzae). One of these yielded Penicillin G resistant Str. pneumoniae. The average duration of antibacterial therapy was 20.5 days. Two patients acquired lasting sequelae but there were no lethal outcomes.