Character, location, and lateralization of headache in patients with tuberculous meningitis.
| At baseline | Headache n (%) | Death n (%) (N=15) | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Mild | Moderate | Severe | Intolerable | |||||||
| Character of headache | |||||||||||
| Throbbing | 46 | 6 | (13.0) | 13 | (28.3) | 21 | (45.65) | 6 | (13.0) | 3 | (20.0) |
| Sharp | 20 | 8 | (40.0) | 4 | (20.0) | 8 | (35.0) | 1 | (5.0) | 1 | (6.7) |
| Stabbing | 18 | 4 | (22.2) | 3 | (16.7) | 2 | (11.1) | 9 | (50.0) | 10 | (66.7) |
| Tight band like | 11 | 4 | (36.4) | 2 | (18.2) | 5 | (45.45) | 0 | 0 | 1 | (6.7) |
| Location of headache | |||||||||||
| Holocranial | 57 | 1 | (1.75) | 10 | (17.5) | 30 | (52.6) | 16 | (28.1) | 15 | (100) |
| Frontal | 13 | 8 | (61.5) | 4 | (30.8) | 1 | (7.7) | 0 | (0) | 0 | (0) |
| Frontotemporal | 16 | 9 | (56.25) | 5 | (1.25) | 2 | (12.5) | 0 | (0) | 0 | (0) |
| Occipital | 4 | 2 | (50.0) | 0 | (0) | 2 | (50.0) | 0 | (0) | 0 | (0) |
| Fronto-parieto-temporal | 5 | 2 | (40.0) | 3 | (60.0) | 0 | (0) | 0 | (0) | 0 | (0) |
| Lateralization of headache | |||||||||||
| Bilateral | 69 | 10 | (14.5) | 12 | (17.4) | 31 | (44.9) | 16 | (23.2) | 15 | (100) |
| Unilateral | 26 | 12 | (46.15) | 10 | (38.5) | 4 | (15.4) | 0 | (0) | 0 | (0) |