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The Ewha Medical Journal
Ewha Womans University School of Medicine

Ewha Med J 1988; 11(1):37-47

pISSN: 1598-7450

DOI: https://doi.org/10.12771/emj.1988.11.1.37

Original Article

A Study on the Prognostic Factors of the Surgical Treatment of Hypertensive Intracerebral Hemorrhage

Kyu Man Shin
Corresponding author: Kyu Man Shin Department of Neurosurgery, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Korea.

Copyright ⓒ 1988. Ewha Womans University School of Medicine. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Published Online: Jul 24, 2015

Abstract

The introcuction of computed tomography and improvements in the surgical techniques have made the diagnosis of hypertensive intracerebral hematoma (HICH) easy and simple at early stage and lead neurosurgeons to operation in the acute phase of the ictus. For the purpose of the assessment of the prognostic factors(age, sex the preoperative consciousness level, location of hematoma, initial blood pressure, blood sugar level and history of hypertension) influencing the surgical mortality, the author reviewed the 52 cases of HICH operated on within 24 hours of the appopletic attack. The overall operative mortality was 57.7%, and the preoperative consciousness level and the location of the hematoma were very significantly and initial blood pressure was significantly correlated with the surgical outcome of the patients. Therefore, it was suggested that the preoperative consciousness level and the location of the hematoma were the most important factors influencing the prognosis in surgical treatment of HICH. However, the other various factors contributing the prognosis need to be studied further.