Spontaneous Primary Intraventricular Hemorrhage: Clinical Features and Early Outcome

Table 3

Primary intraventricular haemorrhage. Main series reported in the literature.

First author, year (reference)	Number of patients	Type of study	Frequency intracerebral hemorrhage (%)	Very old patients (%); (mean age)*	Clinical features; (percentage of patients)	In-hospital mortality; (%)
Gates, 1986 [37]	5	Clinical series	Not stated	None	Altered consciousness 100	20
Verma et al., 1987 [26]	12	Clinical series	Not stated	Not stated	Not stated	33.3
Chan and Mann, 1988 [38]	22	Clinical series	Not stated	Not stated	Not stated	23
Darby et al., 1988 [39]	7	Clinical series	3.1		Altered consciousness 100	28.5
Jayakumar et al., 1989 [40]	15	Clinical series	8.8	None	Altered consciousness 73	46
Ara et al., 1991 [11]	42	Clinical series	7.1	Not stated	No	23.8
Angelopoulos et al., 1995 [24]	14	Clinical series	Not stated	Not stated	Headache 78; Altered consciousness 71; Nausea/vomiting 71	36
Rohde et al., 1995 [33]	20	Clinical series	Not stated	Not stated	Not stated	5%
Tembl et al., 1997 [27]	8	Clinical series	Not stated	Not stated	Not stated	0%
Martí-Fàbregas et al., 1999 [13]	13	Clinical series	Not stated	7.7%; (60 years)	Headache 69; Altered; consciousness 69	23
Passero et al., 2002 [25]	26	Clinical series	Not stated	Not stated	Headache 60; Altered consciousness 44	42
Hameed et al., 2005 [10]	15	Clinical series	2	Not stated; (56 years)	Not stated	13.3
Flint et al., 2008 [12]	15	Clinical series	2.7	Not stated; (64 years)	Headache 67; Nausea/vomiting 47; Altered consciousness 80	7
Giray et al., 2009 [41]	24	Clinical series	Not stated	0	Headache 100; Altered consciousness 83; Nausea/vomiting 41.5	42
Present series, 2012	12	Hospital-based stroke registry	3.3	41.7%; (78.9 years)	Headache 50; Altered consciousness 66.7	41.7

*Age 85 years or more.