Do you recommend surveillance lumbar punctures for patients with Mollaret's meningitis after diagnosis or in between clinical episodes?
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Infectious Disease · University of Utah Health
No. My focus with these patients is to establish the diagnosis, which is often difficult, with false-negative CSF PCR tests, and then do everything I can to prevent and alleviate the attacks. I see no role for surveillance LPs because either the patient is better clinically or they are not, and CSF ...