Predictive Factors and the Role of Traumatic Brain Injury in Stroke.
Vol 2 No 1 (2018), Original Articles
Vol 2 No 1 (2018)

Predictive Factors and the Role of Traumatic Brain Injury in Stroke.

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https://doi.org/10.32391/ajtes.v2i1.44
Published January 20, 2018
Entela Basha
Stroke Unit Service, University Hospital Centre “Mother Theresa”, Tirana, Albania
Altin Kuqo
Neurology Service, University Hospital Centre “Mother Theresa”, Tirana, Albania
Pavllo Djamandi
Neurology Service, University Hospital Centre “Mother Theresa”, Tirana, Albania
Jera Kruja
Neurology Service, University Hospital Centre “Mother Theresa”, Tirana, Albania
AJTES Vol 2, No 1, January 2018.
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stroke
traumatic brain injury
risk faktors

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Basha, E., Kuqo, A., Djamandi, P., & Kruja, J. (2018). Predictive Factors and the Role of Traumatic Brain Injury in Stroke. Albanian Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery, 2(1), 25-27. https://doi.org/10.32391/ajtes.v2i1.44
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Abstract

Background: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the leading cause of mortality and invalidity worldwide.

Objective: To explore whether traumatic brain injury may be a risk factor for subsequent stroke and to evaluate the role of other risk factors correlated with TBI and stroke.

Methods: We analysed 643 patients presented in the emergency department of Trauma UHC, from 1stof June 2011 - 1st of December 2011. We evaluated the following factors: age, gender, and severity of head trauma, type of head trauma, systemic hypertension, atrial fibrillation, and diabetes mellitus.

Results: During 1-year of follow upperiod 32 (4.97%) strokes occurred in TBI patients. The evaluation was done in correlation with the other risk factors taken into account in the study.

Conclusions: The role of TBI is underestimated in the evaluation of stroke. This study demonstrated that during the first year after TBI, 13.53 % of patients experienced stroke. After careful statistical cor-relations with the selected co-morbidities, we found that the diagnosis of stroke was strongly related with TBI.

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