Clinico-epidemiologic evaluation of the morbimortality by cerebrovascular disease in the Military Hospital of Matanzas

Abstract

Cerebrovascular diseases are one of the main health problems in all the developed countries and in our country. Our purpose is to deepen in the factors striking in the morbilethality of these patients in our area, fulfilling the general objective of deepening in the study of the cerebrovascular diseases to interact and achieve a decrease of their morbidity, sequelae and the lethality characterizing them. We carried out a descriptive prospective study, including the patients entering the hospital Dr. Mario Muñoz Monroy of Matanzas with cardiovascular diseases from June 2000 to June 2003 obtaining that the most frequent genre is the male one, and the age group, the one between 70-79 years-old, being arterial hypertension the risk fact with higher incidence, most of the patients showing some level of disability. We arrived to the conclusion that morbidity and lethality increase with age, associated to the most frequent presentation, cerebral stroke, affecting mainly the cerebral media. Septic complications are predominant, with difficulties in the clinic-pathologic correlation.