PM&R
Volume 1, Issue 5 , Pages 427-433, May 2009

Do Stroke Patients With Intracerebral Hemorrhage Have a Better Functional Outcome Than Patients With Cerebral Infarction?

  • Pesi H. Katrak, MD, FAFRM

      Affiliations

    • Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Prince of Wales Hospital and School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of NSW, High Street, Randwick, NSW, Australia 2031†
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to: P.H.K.
    • ,
  • Deborah Black, MStat, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia‡
    • ,
  • Victoria Peeva, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Prince of Wales Hospital, NSW, Australia§

Received 7 January 2009; accepted 4 March 2009.

Objective

To compare the functional outcome of stroke patients with cerebral infarction (CI) and intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) after rehabilitation.

Design

Review of a prospectively maintained database of all stroke patients admitted to a rehabilitation unit during a 9.5-year period.

Setting

Rehabilitation unit in a university hospital in Australia.

Patients

A total of 718 consecutive stroke admissions (589 CI and 129 ICH) who met the inclusion criteria.

Interventions

Not applicable.

Main Outcome Measurements

Functional Independence Measure (FIM) gain, FIM efficiency, Motor Assessment Scale (MAS) change, gait velocity, and discharge destination.

Results

Patients who had ICH were more severely disabled on admission compared with patients who had CI and achieved a greater functional improvement with rehabilitation, ie, a greater FIM efficiency and a greater MAS change. Admission FIM score, admission MAS score, and length of stay were significant explanatory variables for the discharge FIM and FIM gain in both ICH and CI patients. On general linear model analyses, stroke type remained a significant explanatory factor for FIM gain, after adjusting for admission FIM, length of stay, age, and days from stroke onset to rehabilitation admission, ie, stroke patients with ICH obtained a better functional outcome than patients with CI. Admission motor FIM, admission MAS, younger age, and increasing length of stay were independent predictors for FIM gain and discharge FIM for both CI and ICH groups. Admission cognitive FIM score predicted discharge FIM for both the CI and ICH groups and FIM gain in the ICH group but was not a predictor of FIM gain for the CI group. The majority of patients in both groups went home at discharge.

Conclusions

Although patients with ICH had a greater level of disability on admission to rehabilitation, they achieved significantly greater gains in function than patients with CI after rehabilitation. This was found regardless of the severity of disability on admission.

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  • † Disclosure: nothing to disclose
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PII: S1934-1482(09)00232-9

doi:10.1016/j.pmrj.2009.03.002

PM&R
Volume 1, Issue 5 , Pages 427-433, May 2009

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