title: [Cerebral infarcts and length of stay--a multivariate analysis].
abstract: This paper investigates by factor analysis the correlation between kind of ischemic stroke, risk factors, complications of the clinical course and duration of hospitalization of 1105 patients admitted to hospital with acute ischemic stroke in the period of 1.1.86-31.12.90. There was no correlation between increasing age and duration of hospitalization. Especially young men with ischemic stroke combined with carotid artery stenosis and cigarette smoking need the longest time of treatment in hospital. Smoking seems to be a predicting factor for worse prognosis of neurological deficits. Acute strokes in patients with cerebral microangiopathia have the best prognosis and the shortest period of hospitalization. In other patients infectious complications of immobilisation as pneumonia or urinary infections and need of care--especially older women--cause longer periods of hospitalization.
authors.affiliation: Neurologischen Klinik/KKH Gummersbach.
authors.forename: W U
authors.initials: WU
authors.lastname: Weitbrecht
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002423:Cause of Death; D002544:Cerebral Infarction / Q000401:mortality* / Q000517:prevention & control; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D007902:Length of Stay / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D012307:Risk Factors; D015996:Survival Rate
vernacular_title: Hirninfarkte und Liegezeit--Eine multivariate Analyse.