[Retracted] A Retrospective Study of Recurrent Bacterial Meningitis in Children: Etiology, Clinical Course, and Treatment

Table 1

Features of the Patients with Recurrent Bacterial Meningitis.

No.	Sex	Age at first episode (months)	No of episodes	Pathogen	Auditory evoked potential/auditory test	Etiology	Surgical treatment	Outcome
1	M	34 months	3	S. pneumoniae	Normal	Mondini dysplasia with vestibular enlargement	Yes	3 years
2	F	60 months	2	S. pneumoniae	Bilateral severe sensorineural hearing loss	Congenital deaf-mutism/bilateral inner ear malformations	No	1 year
3	F	72 months	5	S. pneumoniae	Unilateral severe sensorineural; Hearing loss	Cochlea incompletely delimited typeIwith vestibular enlargement and loss of posterior and external semicircular canal	Yes	2 years
4	F	30 months	2	H. Influenzae	Mild hearing loss in the right ear	Mondini dysplasia, humoral immunodeficiency disease	No	1 year
5	F	58 months	4	S. pneumoniae	Normal	Local inflammation of the sphenoid caused by cellulitis	Yes	6 months
6	M	47 months	2	S. pneumoniae	Normal	The discontinuous cortex of skull base ethmoid plate	Yes	18 months
7	M	1 month	3	S.aureus	Normal	Lumbosacral pilonidal sinus, intraspinal abscess	Yes	2 years
8	M	108 months	4	S. pneumoniae	Normal	Cerebrospinal rhinorrhea	No	1 year
9	F	7.6 months	3	S. pneumoniae	Binaural hearing screening failed	Cochlea incompletely separated I with vestibular enlargement	No	10 months
10	M	68 months	4	S. pneumoniae	Unilateral severe sensorineural hearing loss	Common lumen deformity of the left inner ear and cerebrospinal leak	Yes	3 years