Peculiarities of the clinical picture of meningitis in children of the first three years of life according to the data of Kyiv Municipal Children’s Clinical Infectious Diseases Hospital in 2010–2015

A retrospective analysis was conducted of 290 case histories in children hospitalized in Kyiv Municipal Children’s Clinical Infectious Diseases Hospital in 2010–2015 with the diagnosis of meningitis. Among them — 73 case histories of children of the first three years of life. It was found that the feature of the disease was the prevalence of meningitis of purulent meningococcal (33 %) and unidentified (55 %) origin and predominance in clinical symptoms of general infectious and meningeal syndromes in purulent meningitis and cerebral signs in aseptic meningitis. It is noted that in 85 % of children, meningitis was severe, in 75 % — complicated. In the structure of meningitis complications in children of the first 3 years of life, cerebral edema prevails