Behavior of some indirect markers of endothelial dysfunction in patients with atherothrombotic ischemic stroke

Abstract

Introduction: cerebrovascular diseases are one of the leading causes of hospitalization and death worldwide, as well as sequelae and disability. Objective: to characterize the behavior of some indirect markers of endothelial dysfunction in patients admitted to the Hospital León Cuervo Rubio with a diagnosis of ischemic-type cerebrovascular disease (atherothrombotic), from January 2017 to May 2019. Method: an observational study was carried out, descriptive and cross-sectional study of the behavior of some indirect markers of endothelial dysfunction in people admitted to the stroke service of the León Cuervo Rubio Hospital. The universe consisted of 850 patients diagnosed with some type of cerebrovascular disease; the sample consisted of 76 patients admitted for ischemic cerebrovascular disease of an atherothrombotic type confirmed by Computed Axial Tomography. Results: the most affected age group was over 70 years old with 61.9%, the sex that predominated was male with 53.9%, it was observed that arterial hypertension had a higher incidence as a personal pathological antecedent, this entity was present in 76.3% of the cases. According to the diagnostic tests used in the study, it is noteworthy that C-reactive protein was positive in 90.3% of the cases. Conclusions: there was a predominance of males, of the age group older than 70 years, arterial hypertension was the predominant personal pathological antecedent and C-reactive protein was the test with the highest degree of positivity.

Keywords

• accidente cerebrovascular isquémico
• anamnesis
• aneurisma
• accidente cerebrovascular
• hipertensión
• placa aterosclerótica