PREVALÊNCIA DE PACIENTES VÍTIMAS DE ACIDENTE VASCULAR ISQUÊMICO DIAGNOSTICADOS POR EXAME DE IMAGEM

Stroke is the second leading cause of death worldwide, second only to ischemic heart disease. It is a disease with high incidence and concerns health scholars because of is potential to cause often irreversible brain damage. Expose or expose, aims to analyze the prevalence of patients affected by Ischemic Stroke, as changes in imaging exams in the first 24 hours and in the main injured brain territories. The study was conducted at Valle Imagem, located in Itaporanga-PB, with a sample of 20 eletronic reports. Data were analyzed in SPSS. Descriptive analyzes of relative and absolute frequency, measures of central tendency and dispersion were used. It was also used for Pearson1s chisquare inferential analysis and Studant’s test. A statistical significance of p <0.05 was accepted. A prevalence of 75% of the patients studied with contrast-free CT alterations was observed in the results, once in the most af fected age group between 61-80 years, although is was evidenced in the patients with a lower correlation with those found in the capsular nucleus situations. And thalamus, these with statistically significant results, was still revealed or male gender is more affected bu the overview. A CT scanner is not only a quality diagnostic method for distinct hemorrhagic diseases, but also has the ability to differentiate ischemic areas within the first 24 hours of the onset of symptomatology evidenced by the diseased cerebral ischemic.