Early stroke fatality is higher in this study compared with reports from developed countries, but long-term survival is similar.
Nevertheless, case fatality is high (18 25%) and neurological sequelae occur in half of surviving patients [1, 11].
The incidence of invasive meningococcal disease (IMD), caused by Neisseria meningitidis, is low in Europe, but case fatality is high (0.8 cases/100,000 inhabitants and 8.7%, resp., in 2011) [ 1].
This assumption means that if the disease is systemic and case fatality is high, among the NAIs only oseltamivir would be useful, since it is absorbed (39 ).
Nevertheless, available data suggests EP is a relatively common gynaecological emergency in LMICs, its case fatality is high [ 7] and its incidence is rising [ 6, 7, 13].
Case fatality is high, ranging from 14 to 44%% [ 1, 4– 6] and up to 50%% in septic shock patients [ 7, 8].
Case fatality is high because most diagnoses occur at advanced stages of the disease: only 3 7% of cases are diagnosed in early stages and survival after 5 year is less than 15% (Sasagawa et al, 1999).
Bat fatality was highest during late summer and fall when bats begin autumn migration [3] and migratory species comprise the majority of fatalities at all wind farms studied to date [4], [5], [6].
Case fatality was highest during the third trimester, except in Queirel's study, which included few cases (18 ).
Although fatality was highest for pneumococcal meningitis at 35% (range, 9%–67%), it is encouraging that the overall case fatality in this study did not rise after 2010 despite a higher proportion of confirmed cases due to Spn.
