A Clinical Features of Recurrent Cerebrovascular Accidents

ABSTRACT

Despite of high recurrenre rate of oerebrovascular accidents(CVA), little attntion had been given to the features of its' recurrence. Of 167 patients with recurrent CVA between March, 1985 and Febnuary, 198.103 patients wer included in this study. Sixty of them were men and 43 of them were women, Their ages ranged from 29 to 8 years(mean. 6.5 ears), with the peak inidence in the sixth and seventh decades .The mean interval between first and second CVA was 23.4 months(range, 1to 144 months) Eighty-one patients had at least more tha one of isk factors, but onl 3 had been received proper treatment. There were tendencies to recur same type and site with the first attack, The patient with history of heart disase. Abnormal eletrocardiographic features, increased fasting bloo sugar(p<0.01), high diastolic bloo pressres (p<0.05)had poo prognois And, the patients ith embolism or hemorrhage revealed poo prognosis than the patients with trombosis(p<.05).