Neurological research
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Neurological research · Apr 1994
Long term outcome after treatment of the ruptured intracranial aneurysm: 73 cases admitted from day 0 to day 3 after subarachnoid haemorrhage.
73 patients admitted from day 0 to day 3 (D0 to D3) after a subarachnoid haemorrhage and being in Hunt and Hess grades I to IV after aneurysm rupture, were studied. All admitted patients were operated upon. The timing of surgery was neither systematic early nor systematic late surgery, but modulated surgery. ⋯ The long term ability to work in 63 followed-up surviving patients was: normal activity--57%, reduced level of activity--16%, no resumption of activity--27%. This rate of activity resumption was not improved in patients operated on early. Among patients with a good long term neurological outcome, only 67% resumed their previous activity at the same level.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)