RESUMO
This retrospective study covers a period of eleven years (1977-1988). It concerns 365 patients who developed a cerebrovascular accident or stroke and originated from different provinces of Gabon. The authors report their experiences in order to emphasize the diagnostic problems and the need of computerized tomography.
Assuntos
Transtornos Cerebrovasculares/diagnóstico , Adolescente , Adulto , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Angiografia , Transtornos Cerebrovasculares/diagnóstico por imagem , Transtornos Cerebrovasculares/epidemiologia , Ecocardiografia , Eletrocardiografia , Eletroencefalografia , Feminino , Gabão/epidemiologia , Hospitalização/estatística & dados numéricos , Humanos , Incidência , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Estudos Retrospectivos , Fatores de Risco , Punção EspinalRESUMO
Research workers have analysed 92 cases of acute delirium in their country and have tried to bring out of their studies the particular aspects which are sources of many diagnostical errors: --factors which cause anxiety and lead to depressive states in Europe, but which destroy quickly the consciousness of some personalities still to be defined in Madagascar; --poor delirium in the tropics with little or no reaction at all makes the diagnostic very difficult.
