A study to evaluate role of computed tomography in clinically suspected cerebrovascular accident in tertiary care hospital

Abstract

Background: Cerebrovascular accident is a leading cause of death and disability throughout the world. It is a common cause of death after heart disease and cancer in India. Accurate and early diagnosis can improve the morbidity and mortality rates, as newer and more effective therapies are currently being instituted. Since computed tomography imaging is widely available, cost effective and less time consuming, it plays the role of first-line imaging modality. This study is aimed to demonstrate the role of computed tomography in clinically suspected cerebrovascular accident. Materials and Methods: Study setting: - Department of radiology, Sri Siddhartha medical college, Tumkur, Karnataka department of radiology Study design: - Prospective cross sectional study Sample size: - 50Source of data:- Data for our study was collected by sampling referred cases with clinical history of stroke Results: Majority of the subjects 64% had infarcts in CT Finding followed by hemorrhage in 24% subjects, SAH in 8% of the subjects and 4% of the subjects had normal. Among 60 subjects of clinically suspected CVA subjected to CT study, 02 case turned out to be normal accounting for 4%. This case was taken as negative case. There are technical problems to detect infarction but certainly the hemorrhage is ruled out in all cases. Conclusion: The result of the study showed that there is a preponderance of ischaemic CVA over haemorrhagic CVA. There is also a male preponderance in the incidence of both haemorrhagic and ischemic CVA