A CLINICAL STUDY ON THE PATIENTS OF STROKE PRESENTING AT MAYO HOSPITAL LAHORE

Objective: The aim of this research is the determination of the presentation mode, aetiology and the outcome of stroke patients.

Methodology: The design of the research is retrospective and the study was conducted at Mayo Hospital Lahore in the duration of one year from Aug-2017 to Jul-2018, including fifty patients in total. The attendants of the patients who were in the ICU filled us out with the necessary information regarding our study. Then we compiled the gathered material for presentation mode, aetiology (subarachnoid haemorrhage, cerebral haemorrhage and infarction) using CT scan and stroke patients’ outcome. We further entered and analyzed the data in SPSS.

Results: During the research, we included a total number of fifty male and female patients (thirty and twenty respectively). The mean of their ages at the time of presentation was 59.9 yrs. Fifty percent (25) patients showing loss of consciousness, 16% (08) patients with fever and vomiting and 32% (16) patients giving symptoms of unilateral weakness were the common types of complaints which we recorded during the course of study. The most recurring factor was hypertension (in 28 patients), whereas the diabetic and smoker patients were 36% (18). We observed ischemia in 62% (31) patients and cerebral haemorrhage in 36% (18) patients. On the other hand, only one patient was having a subarachnoid haemorrhage. Out of the fifty patients, 46% (32) expired because of the deadliness of disease whereas the hospital discharged the rest 36% (18) patients alive.

Conclusion: The research concludes that the most common cause for patients having a stroke was ischemia, which we observed mostly in the smoker, hypertensive and older age-group males. The patients who reached hospital late had mortality and morbidity. This research advises conducting basic studies to prevent, recognize early and manage properly the risk factor in order to decrease the occurrence and fatalities caused due to stroke.

Keywords: Hypertensive, Subarachnoid, Unhealthy, Vomiting, Dysfunction, Fatalities