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LIFE-BASEL
Volume 12, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/life12091295
Keywords
cerebral infarction; cerebral hemorrhage; rehabilitation; stroke; functional outcome
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This study compared inpatient rehabilitation outcomes between different subtypes of stroke and identified predictors of discharge outcomes. Despite the initial severity of stroke being worse in intracerebral hemorrhage patients, they achieved similar functional gains, independence levels, and return-home rates compared to cerebral infarction patients after inpatient rehabilitation.
The aims of this study were to compare inpatient rehabilitation outcomes between acute stroke subtypes of Cerebral Infarction (CI) and Intracerebral Hemorrhage (ICH), and to determine the predictors of discharge outcomes. A retrospective study of stroke inpatients was carried out using the discharge Functional Independence Measure (FIM) as the primary outcome measure. Relationships between stroke subtype, rehabilitation impairments, and medical complications on FIM -gain were analyzed. Altogether, 280 datasets including 211 (75.4%) CI and 69 (24.6%) ICH were analyzed. ICH patients were significantly younger than CI patients (55 years ICH vs. 64.0 years CI years, p < 0.001), had a 10-fold higher proportion needing ICU admission (ICH 82.6% vs. CI 7.6%, p < 0.001), and had significantly lower total admission FIM scores (67 points ICH vs. 74 CI points, p = 0.006), with lower motor-FIM scores in particular (38 points ICH vs. 48 points CI, p = 0.003). Significant functional improvements after inpatient rehabilitation, i.e., FIM gain, occurred regardless of stroke subtype (FIM-ICH Delta 27 vs. FIM-CI Delta 21, p = 0.05). Despite significantly worse initial stroke severity, ICH patients achieved similar functional gains, independence levels, and return-home rates compared with their CI counterparts after inpatient rehabilitation.
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