Brain abscess burr hole aspiration in children with congenital heart disease in low facility centers: case series

Yasser Seddeg Abdulghani; Mohammed Awad Elzain; Abubakr Darrag Salim Ahmed; Salaheldin Awad Abdelhalim

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Sudan J Paed. 2021; 21(1): 61-66

doi: 10.24911/SJP.106-1589487269

Brain abscess burr hole aspiration in children with congenital heart disease in low facility centers: case series

Yasser Seddeg Abdulghani, Mohammed Awad Elzain, Abubakr Darrag Salim Ahmed, Salaheldin Awad Abdelhalim.

Abstract
This is a prospective cross-sectional study on brain abscess burr hole aspiration in children with congenital heart disease (CHD) performed from January 2018 to March 2019. All patients were operated on through a burr hole, and then received intravenous antibiotics for 6 weeks and orally for 2 weeks either empirically or according to the results of abscess culture, if positive. The follow-up of cranial computed tomography or brain magnetic resonance image with contrast was obtained after 2 months (post-operatively) to assess the effectiveness of the procedure and to look for any residual or recurrent abscesses. Data were collected in a designed data collection sheet and analysed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences-20. Thirteen patients were found to satisfy inclusion criteria. The most common presenting symptoms were fever (n = 11/13, 84.6%), vomiting (n = 7/13, 53.8%), headache (n = 6/13, 46.2%), convulsions (n = 6/13, 46.2%), focal weakness (n = 3/13, 23.1%), and impaired level of consciousness (n = 1/13, 7.7%). No bacterial growth was detected in two-thirds of the cases (69.2%), while the culture was positive in the remaining onethird
(30.8%). The follow-up images showed complete resolution of the abscesses except in one case (n = 1/13, 7.7%), which required a
second session of aspiration. One patient died (n = 1/13, 7.7%) on the 19th post-operative day due to severe pneumonia. Aspiration of brain abscess in children with CHD through a burr hole is a safe and effective procedure in terms of operative time, duration of anaesthesia and postoperative complications.

Key words: Brain abscess; burr hole aspiration; congenital heart disease.

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Abdulghani YS, Elzain MA, Ahmed ADS, Abdelhalim SA. Brain abscess burr hole aspiration in children with congenital heart disease in low facility centers: case series. Sudan J Paed. 2021; 21(1): 61-66. doi:10.24911/SJP.106-1589487269

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Abdulghani YS, Elzain MA, Ahmed ADS, Abdelhalim SA. Brain abscess burr hole aspiration in children with congenital heart disease in low facility centers: case series. Sudan J Paed. (2021), [cited February 07, 2024]; 21(1): 61-66. doi:10.24911/SJP.106-1589487269

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Abdulghani, Y. S., Elzain, . M. A., Ahmed, . A. D. S. & Abdelhalim, . S. A. (2021) Brain abscess burr hole aspiration in children with congenital heart disease in low facility centers: case series. Sudan J Paed, 21 (1), 61-66. doi:10.24911/SJP.106-1589487269

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Abdulghani, Yasser Seddeg, Mohammed Awad Elzain, Abubakr Darrag Salim Ahmed, and Salaheldin Awad Abdelhalim. 2021. Brain abscess burr hole aspiration in children with congenital heart disease in low facility centers: case series. Sudanese Journal of Paediatrics, 21 (1), 61-66. doi:10.24911/SJP.106-1589487269

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Abdulghani, Yasser Seddeg, Mohammed Awad Elzain, Abubakr Darrag Salim Ahmed, and Salaheldin Awad Abdelhalim. "Brain abscess burr hole aspiration in children with congenital heart disease in low facility centers: case series." Sudanese Journal of Paediatrics 21 (2021), 61-66. doi:10.24911/SJP.106-1589487269

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Abdulghani, Y. S., Elzain, . M. A., Ahmed, . A. D. S. & Abdelhalim, . S. A. (2021) Brain abscess burr hole aspiration in children with congenital heart disease in low facility centers: case series. Sudanese Journal of Paediatrics, 21 (1), 61-66. doi:10.24911/SJP.106-1589487269

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