St. James's Hospital Newsletter Meningitis Research May '98 Newsletter Bacterial meningitis kills thousands of children every year.
Survivors frequently require limb amputations due to an irregularity of the clotting system.
Recent international attention has focussed on a major medical breakthrough by a team of Irish doctors and scientists working at the National Coagulation Unit at St. James's Hospital and the National Children's Hospital. This work has been widely acclaimed as a significant medical advance and has been published in one of the world's most prestigious medical journals The Lancet. It has been presented at international meetings in America, Britain, Italy and Austria. The doctors and scientists working on this research are coagulation specialists. Their research involves study of the derangement of the clotting system associated with meningitis, stroke and heart disease.