ABSTRACT
Objective To study the prevalence and subtype of hemorrhagic transformation (HT ) among patients with different subtypes of acute cerebral infarction ,and investigate its clinical significance .Methods 977 patients with acute cerebral infarction from January 2008 to December 2011 were divided into groups according to the stroke subtypes :large-artery atherosclerosis(LAA) , cardioembolism(CE) ,small-artery occlusion(SAO) ,undetermined cause(UND) ,and other determined cause(OC) .HT included hemorrhagic infarction (HI) and parenchymal hematoma (PH) .The baseline data were registered and the prevalence and subtype of HT between different groups were compared .Results The rates of hypertension were the highest in LAA ,The rate of diabetes was the highest in SAO ,The rate of atrial fibrillation was the highest in CE .The rates of hyperlipidemia had no significant difference a-mong different subtypes of CI .The HT incidence of LAA ,CE ,SAO ,OC ,UND were 12 .8% ,31 .1% ,6 .6% ,4 .5% ,5 .5% respec-tively ,the difference was statistically significant (χ2 =61 ,P<0 .01) .As to the subtype of HT ,PH was more common in CE group (χ2 =31 ,P<0 .01) .Conclusion Distribution of risk factors ,HT prevalence and classification are different in different subtypes of acute cerebral infarction ,the differences might be related to the distribution of different risk factors .