Clinical Study on the Patients with Cerebrovascular Accident and Myocardial Infarction

ABSTRACT

Thirty patients who coincided with CVA and MI, from january 1980 to August 1984, at Department of Internal Medicine, Kyung Hee University Hospital, were studied. And the following results were obtained; 1) The ratio of male to female was 21. The average age was 61.6 years. The in-hospital mortality rate was higher than cerebrovascular accident or myocardial infarction alone. 2) The most common risk factor was hypertension(83%), smoking(64%), hyperlipidemia(57%) and diabetes mellitus(33%) in order of frequency. 3) Fifteen cases of 30 patients had acute episode of MI and CVA during hospitalization and showed highest in -hospital mortality rate(66.7%). 4) There was no difference in mortality rate between cereral infarction and cerebral hemorrhage.