Abstract

RICARDO COBAS, María del Carmen  and  COBAS MESA, Viviano. Clinical and epidemiological characteristics of the little stroke in patients discharged from a provincial university hospital. MEDISAN [online]. 2011, vol.15, n.11, pp.1533-1539. ISSN 1029-3019.

An observational, descriptive and cross-sectional study was carried out in 139 patients with the diagnosis of a little stroke, discharged from the Cerebrovascular Service at "Saturnino Lora Torres" Teaching Clinical Surgical Provincial Hospital in Santiago de Cuba from January to December, 2007, with the aim of characterizing the population analyzed according to interest variables and identifying the most frequent tomographic findings, as well as specifying the echographic characteristics of atheroma and the stenosis degree in those who had a carotid Doppler ultrasonography indication. The most frequent risk factors in the series were: female sex, 65 years old and over, hypertension, smoking habit, carotid bruit and history of a little stroke suffered 3 months before carrying out this investigation.

Keywords : little stroke; carotid stenosis; atheroma; stenosis; Doppler ultrasonography; carotid circulation.

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