Risk factors for in-hospital complications in patients with acute ischemic stroke: Retrospective cohort in a national reference hospital in Peru

• Autores: Vences, Miguel A., Failoc-Rojas, Virgilio E., Urrunaga Pastor, Diego, Hurtado Roca, Yamilée
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2023
• Institución: Seguro Social de Salud
• Repositorio: ESSALUD-Institucional
• Lenguaje: inglés
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.essalud.gob.pe:20.500.12959/3754
• Enlace del recurso: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12959/3754; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e15810
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Stroke; Acute; Ischemic stroke; Complications; Risk factors; https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#3.02.04

Objective: To describe the clinical and demographic characteristics of patients with acute cerebral infarction treated at a national reference hospital in Peru and determine the risk factors for inhospital complications. Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study including 192 patients with acute ischemic stroke in a national reference hospital in Peru from January to September 2021. Clinical, demographic and paraclinical information was recorded from medical records. We estimated risk ratios and 95% confidence intervals using regression models with Poisson family and robust variance for the bivariate and multivariate model, adjusting for age, sex and risk factors for stroke. Results: At least one in-hospital complication occurred in 32.3% of the patients. The most frequent complications were infectious in 22.4%, followed by 17.7% of neurological complications, with other complications, such as thromboembolism, immobility and miscellaneous, being much less frequent. Regression analysis showed that stroke severity (RR = 1.76; 95%CI:1.09–2.86) and albumin greater than 3.5 mg/dL (RR = 0.53; 95%CI: 0.36–0.79) were independent risk factors for the presence of in-hospital complications. Conclusions: A high rate of in-hospital complications were observed, among which infectious and neurological complications were the most frequent. Stroke severity was a risk factor and albumin greater than 3.5 mg/dL was a protective factor for the incidence of in-hospital complications. These results can serve as a starting point for establishing stroke care systems that consider differentiated flows for the prevention of in-hospital complications.