Clinical Study
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.
|