Medical Acute Complications of Intracerebral Hemorrhage in Young Adults

Table 2

Overview of in-hospital medical complications and conservative or operative treatment in 325 young patients with first-ever nontraumatic intracerebral hemorrhage.

Complication	All ()	Surgical treatment ()	Conservative treatment ()	value
Any infection	110 (33.8)	57 (51.4)	53 (24.8)	<0.001
Sepsis	7 (2.2)	3 (2.7)	4 (1.9)	0.624
Respiratory infection	82 (25.2)	49 (44.1)	33 (15.4)	<0.001
Meningitis	2 (0.6)	2 (1.8)	0	0.049
Gastric infection	4 (1.2)	1 (0.9)	3 (1.4)	0.698
Urinary tract infection	40 (12.3)	14 (12.6)	26 (12.1)	0.904
Deep venous thrombosis	11 (3.4)	2 (1.8)	9 (4.2)	0.256
Pulmonary embolism	4 (1.2)	0	4 (1.9)	0.146
Arrhythmia	4 (1.2)	0	4 (1.9)	0.146
Renal failure	59 (18.2)	16 (14.4)	43 (20.1)	0.208
Hyperglycemia	165 (50.8)	88 (79.3)	77 (36.0)	<0.001
Hypoglycemia	15 (4.6)	6 (5.4)	9 (4.2)	0.625
Hyponatremia	146 (44.9)	66 (59.5)	80 (37.4)	<0.001
Hypernatremia	91 (28.0)	50 (45.0)	41 (19.2)	<0.001
Hypopotassemia	104 (32.0)	45 (40.5)	59 (27.6)	0.022
Hyperpotassemia	27 (8.3)	11 (9.9)	16 (7.5)	0.482

Data are (%).