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Anales de la Facultad de Ciencias Médicas (Asunción)

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Abstract

TOPACIO RODRIGUEZ, Mariano Augusto  and  ORTIZ GALEANO, Ignacio. Clinical characteristics of patients with ischemic stroke admitted during the therapeutic window period in the Emergency Department of the Hospital de Clinicas. An. Fac. Cienc. Méd. (Asunción) [online]. 2022, vol.55, n.2, pp.18-24. ISSN 1816-8949.  https://doi.org/10.18004/anales/2021.055.02.18.

Introduction:

Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death. Ischemic stroke is a public health problem.

Objectives:

To determine the clinical characteristics of patients with ischemic stroke admitted during the therapeutic window period in the Emergency Department of the Hospital de Clínicas in the period 2018 - 2020.

Materials and methods:

Observational, descriptive, retrospective, cross-sectional study. The subjects were male and female patients, over 18 years of age admitted to the Stroke Unit of the Emergency Service of the Hospital de Clínicas in the therapeutic window period between June 2018 and September 2020.

Results:

Included 512 patients in the study. The mean age was 65 ± 12,1 years. The most frequent sex was male with (58.7%), most of them come from the central department (61.3%). The most frequent risk factors were arterial hypertension (83.3%), overweight (34.7%) and type 2 diabetes mellitus (27.3%). They presented moderate infarction (41,8%). Thrombolysis was performed in (16%) of the patients.

Conclusion:

The patients who presented ischemic stroke admitted in the therapeutic window period were mostly male, mean age 65 years, the most frequent cardiovascular risk factors were arterial hypertension, overweight and mellitus diabetes type 2, moderate infarction was the most frequent and few received thrombolysis.

Keywords : stroke; ischemic; thrombolysis; arterial hypertension; diabetes; overweight..

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