Journal article
Mortality in Acute Cerebral Infarction in Young Adults—A Ten-Year Experience
Angiology, Vol.42(3), pp.224-230
03/1991
DOI: 10.1177/000331979104200307
PMID: 2018244
Abstract
We reviewed the one-month mortality among 213 patients aged fifteen to forty-five years (mean thirty-five) with acute cerebral infarction (CI) evaluated during the period July 1, 1977, to February 1, 1988. Atherosclerotic cerebral infarction (ACI) was diagnosed in 59 (27.7% ) patients, 53 (24.9%) had non- atherosclerotic vasculopathies (NAV); 46 (21.6%) had cardioembolic infarcts (CEI). Hematologically related disorders were diagnosed in 30 (14.1%) patients; the cause of CI could not be established in 25 (11.7%) patients. Fourteen patients (9 men, 5 women, mean age 34.8 years), (6.6%) died within thirty days of their CI: 7 had CEI (7/46, 15.2%); 4 had ACI (4/59, 6.7%); and 3 had NAV (3/53, 5.6%). Our data suggest that young patients with acute CI have a thirty-day mortality rate lower than older patients. Deaths were most common in patients with CEI. Brain edema and herniation accounted for 6 (43 % ) of the deaths.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Mortality in Acute Cerebral Infarction in Young Adults—A Ten-Year Experience
- Creators
- José Biller - Division of Cerebrovascular Diseases, Department of Neurology, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, IowaHarold P Adams - Division of Cerebrovascular Diseases, Department of Neurology, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, IowaAskiel Bruno - Division of Cerebrovascular Diseases, Department of Neurology, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, IowaBetsy B Love - Division of Cerebrovascular Diseases, Department of Neurology, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, IowaE. Eugene Marsh - Division of Cerebrovascular Diseases, Department of Neurology, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Angiology, Vol.42(3), pp.224-230
- Publisher
- Sage Publications; Thousand Oaks, CA
- DOI
- 10.1177/000331979104200307
- PMID
- 2018244
- ISSN
- 0003-3197
- eISSN
- 1940-1574
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/1991
- Academic Unit
- Neurology; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984020852102771
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