Ischaemic stroke and Clostridium septicum sepsis and meningitis in a patient with occult colon carcinoma - a case report and review of the literature

Table 1 Summary of published Clostridium septicum CNS infections

First Author	Age [years]	Sex	CNS manifestation	Underlying disease	Outcome	Day of death after admission
Bhogal P [3]	80-89	female	Meningoencephalitis with pneumocephalus	Gastroenteritis	Died	1
Broughton RA [10]	2	female	Meningoencephalitis	HUS	Died	1
Cheng YT [2]	40	female	Brain abscess	Multiple wounds, breast cancer	Survived	-
Chiang V [11]	2	male	Brain abscess	HUS	Survived	-
Dirks C [12]	72	female	Meningoencephalitis with pneumocephalus	Myonecrosis	Died	1
Gorse GJ [13]	76	male	Meningoencephalitis with pneumocephalus	Colorectal carcinoma	Died	1
Gorse GJ [13]	33	male	Meningoencephalitis with pneumocephalus	Aplastic anemia with splenectomy	Died	2
Habscheid W [14]	55	male	Meningoencephalitis with pneumocephalus	Neutropenic enterocolitis	Died	2
Macha K*	74	male	Meningoencephalitis	Colorectal carcinoma	Died	3
Katyal A [6]	66	male	Meningoencephalitis with pneumocephalus	Unknown	Died	1
Kolbeinsson MW [15]	71	male	Brain abscess	MDS	Survived	-
Mrangou AG [16]	85	male	Brain abscess	Colorectal carcinoma	Died	16
Martin SE [7]	2	male	Meningoencephalitis with pneumocephalus	HUS	Died	1
Ragland RL [17]	67	male	Meningoencephalitis with pneumocephalus	Colorectal carcinoma	Died	1
Randall JM [8]	4	male	Meningoencephalitis with pneumocephalus	HUS	Died	3
Riccio JA [18]	1	male	Meningoencephalitis with pneumocephalus	HUS	Died	1
Roeltgen D [19]	73	female	Meningoencephalitis with pneumocephalus	Colorectal carcinoma	Died	1
Sadarangani SP [20]	1 month	male	Brain abscess	Necrotizing enterocolitis	Survived	-
Williams EJ [21]	2	male	Brain abscess	HUS	Survived	-

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