title: [Meningeal hemorrhage at a neurological intensive care unit. Study of a series of 234 unselected cases].
abstract: In a 6-year-period, 234 cases of subarachnoid haemorrhage were observed in a neurological intensive care unit: 74 were male and 69 were female, aged from 15 to 94 years. In 15 cases no other investigation than C.T. scan or lumbar puncture was performed. In 143 patients, cerebral angiography demonstrated a ruptured aneurysm of cerebral vessels and 99 were operated. The prognosis was poor in old age, with aneurysms located on the anterior part of the circle of Willis, severe neurological involvement and extensive subarachnoid or ventricular haemorrhage. A recurrence of the haemorrhage occurred in 18 cases and cerebral ischaemia was present in 69 patients. The mortality rate of patients with ruptured aneurysms was 47.5 p. 100 (30.4 p. 100 when operated). Seventeen patients probably had a ruptured cerebral aneurysm but cerebral angiography was not conclusive; 12 of them died. In 15 other cases, the haemorrhage was related to cerebral angiomas (3 cases), endocarditis (2), coagulation disorders (6), cranial trauma (3) and Moya-Moya disease (1). In 44 patients, the aetiology of subarachnoid haemorrhage was unknown and the mortality rate was 14 p. 100. The poor prognosis of subarachnoid haemorrhage, worse than in neurosurgical series, is emphasized. It may be explained by the lack of selection of the patients in a non-surgical department.
authors.affiliation: Clinique Neurologique, Centre Médico-Chirurgical Gui de Chaulia, Montpellier.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Labauge
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pagès
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Roelens
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Blard
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Issautier
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Campello
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D002532:Intracranial Aneurysm / Q000150:complications; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009462:Neurology; D013345:Subarachnoid Hemorrhage / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality; D013997:Time Factors
vernacular_title: Les hémorragies méningées dans un service de réanimation neurologique. Etude d'une série de 234 cas non sélectionnés.