Professional Documents
Culture Documents
By John E. Greenlee, MD
Type Examples
Type Examples
Metastatic cancer
Disorders
Sarcoidosis
Behet syndrome
SLE
Sjgren syndrome
RA
Cytosine arabinoside
IVIG
Muromonab-CD3 (OKT3)
Carbamazepine
Phenazopyridine
Ranitidine
Anesthetics
Substances injected into the
subarachnoid space Antibiotics
Chemotherapy drugs
Radiopaque dyes
Pertussis
Vaccines
Rabies
Smallpox
Noninfectious meningitis causes symptoms (eg, headache, fever, nuchal rigidity) that are
similar to those caused by other kinds of meningitis. Severity and acuity can vary, but
noninfectious meningitis tends to be less severe than acute bacterial meningitis.
Causative disorders are treated, and causative drugs are stopped. Otherwise, treatment is
supportive.
If patients appear seriously ill, appropriate antibiotics and corticosteroids are started
immediately (without waiting for tests results) and continued until acute bacterial meningitis
is ruled out (ie, CSF is shown to be sterile).