Table 1.
Outcome of acute brain infarction (April 1995 to March 1997)
| Clinical Categories |
Lacunar brain infarction |
Atherothrombotic brain infarction |
Cardioembolic brain infarction |
Other and unclassified brain infarction |
Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number (%) | 104 (37%) | 71 (25%) | 86 (31%) | 20 (7%) | 281 |
| Age (mean±SD) | 70 ±11 | 71 ±10 | 73 ±13 | 61 ± 19 | 71 ±12 |
| Male : female | 69:35 | 46:25 | 57:29 | 14:6 | 186:95 |
| Introduction referred from other hospital(rate) |
73 (70%) | 43 (61%) | 57 (66%) | 10 (50%) | 183 (65%) |
| Outcome | |||||
| Independent | 83 (80%) | 42 (59%) | 39 (45%) | 15 (75%) | 179 (64%) |
| With cane | 2 (2%) | 7 (10%) | 3 (3%) | 2 (10%) | 14 (5%) |
| Wheel-chair | 16 (15%) | 13 (18%) | 19 (22%) | 1 (5%) | 49 (17%) |
| Bed-ridden | 1 (1%) | 7 (10%) | 18 (21%) | 1 (5%) | 27 (10%) |
| Dead | 2 (2%) | 2 (3%) | 7 (8%) | 1 (5%) | 12 ( 4%) |
| Discharge to other hospital | 22 (21%) | 30 (42%) | 48 (56%) | 7 (35%) | 106 (38%) |
| Discharge to own home | 80 (77%) | 39 (55%) | 31 (36%) | 12 (60%) | 163 (58%) |
| Length of hospital stay | |||||
| Patients of discharge to own home |
21 days | 22 days | 27 days | 24 days | 23 days |
| Patients of discharge to other hospital |
40 days | 40 days | 49 days | 34 days | 44 days |
| Dead patients | 107 days | 42 days | 20 days | 4 days | 37 days |
| Total | 26 days | 30 days | 39 days | 27 days | 31 days |
| Patients with hospital Stay over 60 days(rate) |
4 (4%) | 5 (7%) | 14 (16%) | 0 (0%) | 23 (8%) |