[Complications and sequelae of the purulent, bacterial meningoencephalitis in the material from the 1st Clinic of Infectious Diseases of Silesian Medical Academy in Bytom in the years 1991-1997].

From 1991 to 1997 at the I Clinic of Infectious Diseases of Silesian Medical Academy in Bytom 123 patients with purulent, bacterial meningoencephalitis were treated. Mortality in the analysed group was 28.5% (35 cases). In the course of disease various complications were observed: seizures (43.1% cases), ischaemic stroke (2.4% cases), brain abscess (4.1%). Permanent consequences subsequent to the disease were found in 16.3% cases: deafness and partial deafness, psychic disorders, paresis and paralysis, epilepsy and cranial nerves paralysis. Bacterial infections of the central nervous system are still danger diseases producing high lethality, complications and subsequent neurological sequelae.