Sequelae due to bacterial meningitis among African children: a systematic literature review

Table 3 Numbers of articles and cases reviewed by region

Region	No. articles	Total no. confirmed BM cases with follow-up	Median no. confirmed BM cases with follow-up (min, max)	Total no. evaluated for in-hospital sequelae	Total no. evaluated for post-discharge sequelae
Eastern Meningitis	6	584	81 (32, 224)	431	80
Middle Meningitis	3	340	99 (67, 174)	211	67
Western Meningitis	12	2,394	85 (23, 654)	1,353	168
Africa Eastern	3	284	83 (52, 149)	173	0
Africa Middle	2	494	(91, 403)	332	0
Africa Northern	9	1,793	118 (20, 697)	457	816
Africa Southern	2	140	(61, 79)	104	0
Total	37	6,029		3,061	1,131

A total of 3,061 survivors were evaluated for in-hospital sequelae. Most of the in-hospital sequelae data comes from the western Africa meningitis belt region. Much less data is available on post-discharge sequelae (n = 1,131 cases) because survivors of bacterial meningitis were lost to follow-up or died after hospital discharge. Most of the post-discharge data comes from the northern Africa region.
BM = bacterial meningitis.

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