title: The impact of rebleeding on the life time probabilities of different outcomes in patients with ruptured intracranial aneurysms. A theoretical evaluation.
abstract: In order to strengthen patient-information a theoretical evaluation of the impact of rebleeding on the life time probabilities of different outcomes in patients with an aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH) has been made using a life table method. The calculations were performed for SAH-presenting ages from 20 to 70 years assuming a rate of rebleeding of 50% in the first 6 months after the initial bleeding with a mortality rate of 70%, and the following years an annual rate of rebleeding of 3%, and with a mortality rate of 60%. A survey of the life time probabilities of the 4 different outcomes after an aneurysmal SAH shows the great life time reducing effect of rebleedings in all SAH-presenting ages.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Copenhagen County Hospital, Glostrup, Denmark.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Eskesen
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rosenørn
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Schmidt
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis; D012422:Rupture, Spontaneous; D013345:Subarachnoid Hemorrhage / Q000150:complications / Q000401:mortality*