J Korean Neurol Assoc.  1990 Jun;8(1):21-28.

Factors Associated with Ventricular Dilatation after Spontaneous Subarachnoid Hemorrhage

• Kim DK
• Shin DJ
• Kim HT
• Chung KC

Abstract

Acute ventricular dilatation is an important complication of spontaneous subarachnoid hemorrage(SAH). We studied several factors possibly related to ventricular dilatation following SAH in 110patient. We concluded the followings: 1) The incidence of ventricular dilatation was increased as the clinical status on ad mission was aggravated. 2) The incldence of ventricular dilatation was increased with associated IVH or ICH and IVH 3) Cerebral angiography(95 cases) revealed the anterior communicating artery(ACOM) to be the most common site of aneurysm in 39 cases(46.2 %) and in the cases with ventricular dilatation ACOM was also the most common site of aneurysm in l8 cases. 4) The incidence of ventricular dilatation was high in the cases with the history of hypertension, and more high blood pressure on admission, especially the systolic blood pressure, there were more cases of ventricular dilatation. 5) There were more cases of ventricular dilatation in the hyponatremia. 6) The mortality of the 110 patients of SAH was 22.7%(25 cases), and in the group of ventricular dilatation the mortality was 34.1%.

MeSH Terms

Aneurysm
Blood Pressure
Dilatation*
Humans
Hypertension
Hyponatremia
Incidence
Missions and Missionaries
Mortality
Subarachnoid Hemorrhage*