The influence of race and other factors on the outcome of intracranial surgery for cerebral artery aneurysms
Kaufman, D.M.; Portenoy, R.K.; Lesser, M.L.; Tabaddor, K.
New York State Journal of Medicine 84(11): 549-553
1984
ISSN/ISBN: 0028-7628 PMID: 6595550 Document Number: 234305
In a follow-up study of patients who underwent intracranial surgery for cerebral artery aneurysms, the rate of adverse events (combination of morbidity and mortality) was 28%.sbd.significantly lower than in a previously published study. In an analysis of the relative importance of prognostic factors, the occurrence of an adverse event was associated with a poor neurologic grade (P < 0.08), an age of 50 yr or older (P < 0.08) and hypertension (P < 0.04). Allowing for other factors, race itself was not associated with an adverse event in intracranial surgery for cerebral aneurysms.