STROKE

Objective: To find out the frequency of major categories of stroke (i.e. cerebral infarction, intracerebral hemorrhage and sub-arachnoid hemorrhage) Design: A descriptive study. Place & Duration of Study:Medical unit III Allied Hospital Faisalabad from January 2005 to June 2005. Patients and Methods: 112 patients wereenrolled after taking verbal consent. After complete physical examination and investigations a sample size of 100patients was calculated using 5% level of significant and margin of error as 5%. Results: This study revealed frequencydistribution of various categories of stroke as cerebral infarction 62 cases (62%), cerebral haemorrhage 30 cases (30%)and sub-arachnoid haemorrhage 8 cases (8%) out of 100 cases in total. Conclusion: Intra-cerebral bleed has got ahigher trend in Asia than in western countries and is more common in female gender while cerebral infarction is morecommon in males and its frequency although the highest among the major categories of stroke in Asia but relativelyless as compared to that in western countries.