Prognosis
Bacterial meningitis is fatal in as many as 25% of cases. Patients with meningitis caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae and patients younger than 2 years old or over the age of 60 have a poor prognosis. Prompt medical treatment (i.e., antibiotics) reduces the risk for dying from bacterial meningitis to less than 15%.
Viral meningitis usually resolves in 7–10 days and is fatal in fewer than 1% of cases.
Physician-developed and -monitored.
Original Date of Publication: 01 Jan 2002
Reviewed by: Stanley J. Swierzewski, III, M.D.
Last Reviewed: 01 Dec 2007
Meningitis, Prognosis reprinted with permission from neurologychannel.com
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