Descripción de los pacientes con hemorragia intracerebral espontánea en el Hospital San José de Bogotá

Abstract

Introduction: Spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage has become a disease with high prevalence that generates a considerable morbidity and mortality and more in our region, with risk factors and known in the world literature, but if we define in our population the epidemiological characteristics of this pathology. Objectives: Characterize patients with spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage as well as to measure mortality and clinical use scores for this pathology. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive observational study was conducted in the period from November 2013 to December 2016, using as criteria of selection patients with diagnosis of spontaneous or non-traumatic intracerebral hemorrhage, age over 18 years. Results: 102 patients were found, of which there was no significant difference in the appearance of spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage among men, 38% of the patients presented as a history of arterial hypertension, 7% received one type of surgical intervention, twelve of the total A consequence of the HIE died and only 1 of them underwent drainage of the intraparenchymal hematoma and a ventriculostomy was placed. Conclusions: Prospective studies should be implemented to obtain more variables and results that allow impact on this pathology.