Research Article

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

Table 2

The clinical characteristics of nonaneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage.

All NASAH ()PMN-SAH ()nPMN-SAH () value

LOS, mean (range)8.5 ± 8.5 (2–75)7.7 ± 4.0 (2–16)12.9 ± 11.9 (2–75)0.001
GCS
 Mild (13–15)132 (97.0%)82 (100%)50 (90.9%)0.009
 Middle (9–12)1 (0.7%)01 (1.8%)
 Severe (3–8)4 (2.3%)04 (7.3%)
H-H grade
 Good (I-II)132 (96.4%)81 (98.8%)51 (92.7%)0.157
 Poor (III-IV)5 (3.6%)1 (1.2%)4 (7.3%)
mFS
 0-178 (56.9%)70 (85.4%)8 (14.5%)<0.001
 2–459 (43.1%)12 (14.6%)47 (85.5%)
Complication
Hydrocephalus14 (10.2%)3 (3.7%)11 (20.0%)0.001
Cerebral vasospasm7 (5.1%)1 (1.2%)6 (10.9%)0.017
Rebleeding1 (0.7%)01 (1.8%)0.401
Pulmonary infections3 (2.2%)1 (1.2%)2 (3.6%)0.564

NASAH: nonaneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage, PMN-SAH: perimesencephalic nonaneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage, nPMN-SAH: nonperimesencephalic nonaneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage, GCS: Glasgow coma scale, H-H grade: Hunt-Hess grade, mFS: modified Fisher Scale; LOS: length of hospital stay.