Assessment of Acute Stroke Using Computed Tomography

Abstract

This is descriptive study and was conducted in three months during the period from November 2016, to February 2017 in Aljazeera injuries and orthopedic surgery center in Wad Madani and Wad Madani technical hospital. This study carried out in a sample of 50 patients (34 men and 16 women) who underwent to brain computed tomography examination. The objectives of this study is to assess of acute stroke using computed tomography , to measure % percentage of ischemia to hemorrhage , to identify the common site of stroke, to correlate the finding with age , gender, habits and weight and to show the relation between the finding and underlining diseases. The results of this study were the percentage of ischemia is more frequently than hemorrhage in the sample of study, where the ischemia was 72% and hemorrhage was 28%.