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Revista Archivo Médico de Camagüey
versión On-line ISSN 1025-0255
Resumen
TARTABULL POUTRIEL, Kiopper y NICOLAU PESTANA, Elizabeth. Characterization in a group of patients with cerebral infarct at Internal Medicine consultation. AMC [online]. 2008, vol.12, n.6, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1025-0255.
Background: The cerebral infarction constitutes the third fatal cause in Cuba and in the majority of developed countries, only surpassed for cardiovascular diseases and cancer. Objective: To know the cerebrovascular disease behavior at Internal Medicine consultation. Method: A descriptive study to 47 patients discharged from the hospitals "Enrique Santiesteban Báez" of Santa Cruz del Sur municipality and "Manuel Ascunse Domenech" of Camagüey province was performed with the diagnosis of cerebral infarction from September 1st 2006 to September 1st 2007. Results: The age range of 71 years and more constituted the 67% of the casuistics. Hypertension, smoking and dyslipidemia predominated in the masculine sex as risk factors with 91.5, 65,9 y 61,7%, respectively. The atherothrombotic infarction showed up in the 44.7 % of the patients. Conclusions: The masculine sex, the age of 71 years and more were the most frequent in our study, the vascular territory of bigger affection was constituted by the carotid in both sexes. Diabetes mellitus predominated in the female sex. The atherothrombotic cerebral infarction was the most frequent.
Palabras clave : Epidemilogy descriptive; cerebral infarction; classification; prevention & control.