Foundation:

cerebrovascular diseases are the third cause of death in the world and one of the main causes of disability in the adult.

Objective:

to describe the main clinical characteristics of deceased patients due to cerebrovascular disease at the Dr. Gustavo Aldereguía Lima General Hospital in Cienfuegos.

Methods:

a descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted between January 1, 2014 and December 31, 2016 in the General University Hospital Gustavo Aldereguía Lima de Cienfuegos. The universe consisted of 517 deceased patients with a diagnosis of cerebrovascular disease in the period and the variables considered were: age, sex, type and form of presentation of focal cerebrovascular disease, hospital stay, associated pathologies and year of death. The results were obtained in absolute and percent frequencies.

Results:

from the deceased 31.1 % of were between 80-89 years old. Male sex predominated in 55.3 %. Stroke of the ischemic type represented 62.5 %, the athero-thrombotic form was the most frequent with 31.9 %. The year 2015 had the highest number of deaths with 186. The first 7 days of hospital stay recorded 75.2 % of deaths. The main associated pathology was hypertension (34.6 %).

Conclusions:

mortality from cerebrovascular disease. Most patients who died did so in the first week of hospital stay.

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