Survival In Hospital And Predictor Of Mortality Among Adult Stroke Patients In Saint Pauls Hospital Millennium Medical College Addis Abeba Ethiopia 2019.

Background: Stroke is sudden loss of blood supply to the brain leading to permanent tissue damage caused by, embolic, thrombotic or hemorrhagic events. Almost 85% of strokes are ischemic stroke.rnStroke is ‘silent’ brain, retinal and spinal infarcts and silent cerebral hemorrhages. Stroke is typically characterized by a neurological deficit attributed to an acute focal injury of the central nervous system by a vascular cause, like, Intracerebral hemorrhage subarachnoid hemorrhage and cerebral infarction. When we see death due to stroke separately from other cardiovascular diseases, stroke led the fifth among all causes of death, behind diseases of the heart, cancer, chronic lower respiratory disease, and unintentional injuries/accidents.rnObjectives: To assess survival in hospital and predictor of mortality among adult stroke patient in Saint Paul’s Hospital millennium Medical College Addis Ababa Ethiopia 2019rnMethodology: Institution based Retrospective cohort was conducted. Patients who were admitted to SPHMMC from January 2016 to December 2018, with a primary diagnosis of stroke (Ischemic Stroke or Hemorrhage stroke) Data entered to Epi-Data version 4.3 and analyzed using SPSS 24 statistical software. Predictor with p-value

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