Causes and Management of Aseptic Meningitis : A Retrospective Cohort Study in Strasbourg University Hospital

Causes and Management of Aseptic Meningitis : A Retrospective Cohort Study in Strasbourg University Hospital

The diagnostic and therapeutic management of patients with aseptic meningitis is a challenge for the practitioner. There are many etiologies of this condition (infectious, inflammatory, neoplastic, drug-induced), which it is necessary to know how to evoke and look for specifically.

Inclusion criteria:

• Major subject (≥18 years old)
• Subject with aseptic meningitis (CSF pleocytosis, negative bacteriology) from January 2015 to October 2020, at HUS
• Subject having not expressed, after being informed, their opposition to the reuse of their data for the purposes of this research.

Exclusion criteria:

• Subject who expressed their opposition to participating in the study
• Subject under guardianship or curatorship
• Subject under safeguard of justice
• Positive VZV, HSV, or Enterovirus PCR in CSF
• CSF analysis performed as part of the assessment of a known pathology
• Traumatic or surgical etiology