Clinical and digital subtraction angiographic (DSA) evaluation of patients of subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH) in a tertiary level hospital

The present study was undertaken to evaluate the morphological anatomy of cerebral vessels in patients of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. The cross-sectional observational study was carried out in the Department of Neurology, Dhaka Medical College Hospital, Dhaka from January 2013 to June 2013. Adult patients of spontaneous subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH), diagnosed clinically and confirmed by CT scan of the head were included in the study. However, patients who are not capable financially of undergoing Digital Subtraction Angiography (DSA), traumatic subarachnoid haemorrhage, intracerebral haemorrhage and patients taking antiplatelet and anticoagulant drugs and with comorbidities were excluded. A total of 30 subjects meeting the above eligibility criteria were selected consecutively from the study population. The present study demonstrated that 80% of the patients…