Research Article

Management of Spontaneous Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Patients with Negative Initial Digital Subtraction Angiogram Findings: Conservative or Aggressive?

Table 1

Demographics of patients with nonaneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage.

NASAHPMN-SAHnPMN-SAH value

Sum (%)137 (100%)82 (59.9%)55 (40.1%)NS
Male-female ratio76/61 (1.2/1)42/40 (1.05/1)33/22 (1.5/1)0.357
Age (range)56.0 ± 10.4 (30–80)55.4 ± 9.6 (34–76)56.7 ± 13.7 (30–80)0.156
Smoker (%)18 (13.1%)11 (13.4%)7 (12.7%)0.907
Alcohol abusing (%)21 (15.3%)13 (15.9%)8 (14.5%)0.835
Diabetes (%)7 (5.1%)3 (3.7%)4 (7.3%)0.438
Hypertension (%)30 (21.9%)15 (18.3%)15 (27.3%)0.213
Anticoagulant Using (%)4 (2.9%)2 (2.4%)2 (3.6%)1

NASAH: nonaneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage, PMN-SAH: perimesencephalic nonaneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage, nPMN-SAH: nonperimesencephalic nonaneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage; NS means can not be analyzed.