Aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: analysis of the evolution of the patients hospitalized at a hospital of Tubarão

Introduction: It is estimated that 2 to 3% of humans have intracranial aneurysms. The rupture of this lesion develop a serious clinical situation, with subarachnoid hemorrhage, whose rate of mortality arrives to 40%. Objective: To analyze the evolution of the patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage originated from intracranial aneurysms hospitalized at Nossa Senhora da Conceição Hospital (HNSC). Methods: A study of historical cohort and cohort. The population was formed by aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage diagnosis patients hospitalized from January 2005 though May of 2007. Results: The population was formed by 33, with a higher prevalence in women (57.5%). Patients who were smokers summed 63%, and those with hypertension 54.6%. Previous history of aneurism was two times higher in the group of bad prognosis (PR=2.00; CI 95%: 1.32-2.92). Headache or meningism was the most common clinical presentation (66.7%). Patients submitted to surgical treatment presented a prevalence almost 60% lower of coming to have a bad prognosis in the discharge (PR=0.43; CI 95%: 0.26-0.70; pKruskal-Wallis =0.03). After the sharp hemorrhage, 42.3% of the participants were able to return to their labor activities. Conclusions: The results found here were compatible with the literature, ones what sustains the maintenance of the current therapeutic modality of the HNSC front to the patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage.