Table 2.
Clinical outcome and haemorrhagic complications.
| <85 y-o n = 1399 | Oldest Old n = 106 | Group comparison P value |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Patients lost to followup n (%) | 79 (5.65) | 13 (12.26) | |
| NIHSS score at 24 hours, median (IQR) | 6 (2–15) | 11 (4–19) | <0.001* |
| NIHSS score at day 7, median (IQR) | 3 (0–11) | 6 (1–16.5) | 0.005* |
| Long-term outcome parameters (day 90) | |||
| Favourable outcome (mRS 0-1), n (%) | 594 (45) | 29 (31.2) | 0.009* |
| Independent outcome (mRS 0–2), n (%) | 772 (58.7) | 37 (40.2) | 0.001* |
| Moderate disability, severe disability, or death (mRS 3–6), n (%) | 541 (41.1) | 55 (59.8) | 0.001* |
| Mortality n (%) | 155 (11.5) | 26 (28) | <0.001* |
| Causes of death | |||
| Ischaemic stroke, n (%) | 60 (42.3) | 9 (36) | ns |
| SICH, n (%) | 16 (11.3) | 1 (4) | ns |
| Myocardial Infarction, n (%) | 5 (3.5) | 1 (4) | ns |
| Pneumonia, n (%) | 41 (28.9) | 12 (48) | ns |
| Pulmonary thromboembolism, n (%) | 1 (0.7) | 0 | ns |
| Other vascular causes, n (%) | 7 (4.9) | 2 (8) | ns |
| Hemorrhagic transformation | |||
| AICH, n (%) | 201 (16%) | 15 (16%) | 0.983 |
| SICH, n (%) | 48 (3.7) | 3 (3.1) | 1.000 |
NIHSS: National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale; mRS: Modified Rankin Scale; IQR: interquartile range. SICH: symptomatic intracranial haemorrhage; AICH: Asymptomatic intracranial haemorrhage. Statistical significance *P < 0.005.