CORRELATION BETWEEN CLINICAL AND NEUROIMAGING OF ACUTE STROKE
MD. YASIR ARAFAT *
Department of Medicine, Dhaka Medical College, Bangladesh
MD. ROBED AMIN
Department of Medicine, Dhaka Medical College, Bangladesh
MD. AZIZUL KAHHAR
Department of Medicine, Dhaka Medical College, Bangladesh
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
Background: The stroke patients comprise a large number of hospital admissions and stroke is one of leading cause of significant mortality and morbidity in Bangladesh.
Objective: To find out the correlation between clinical and neuroimaging of acute stroke.
Methods: One hundred patients of stroke both Ischaemic and Haemorrhagic presented with diverse clinical features subsequently proved by CT-scan of brain were taken into account by supporting inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Study Design: Hospital based observational study.
Study Setting and Period: Medicine units of Dhaka medical college hospital from July ’10 to Dec’10.
Source of Materials/Participants: 100 stroke patients admitted at different medicine units of DMCH.
Results: In 76% of ischaemic stroke (clinically) 4% were haemorrhagic and 2% were normal on CTscan and in 24% cases of haemorrhagic stroke (clinically) 2% were ischaemic on CTscan. So, clinical and neuroimaging did not correlate in 8% cases.
Conclusion: Correlation between clinical and neuroimaging of acute stroke can be done in most of the cases.
Keywords: Acute stroke, neuroimaging, stroke correlation, radiological findings in stroke