Augmentation index as an early marker of in-hospital mortality in patients with acute ischemic stroke

Pan Afr Med J. 2019 Dec 2:34:171. doi: 10.11604/pamj.2019.34.171.20249. eCollection 2019.

Authors

Athanasia Papazafiropoulou¹, Eleni-Margarita Tzouganatou¹, Styliani Papantoniou¹, Elias Georgopoulos¹, Andreas Melidonis¹

Affiliation

¹ First Department of Internal Medicine and Diabetes Center, General Hospital "Tzaneio", Piraeus, Greece.

No abstract available

Keywords: Arterial stiffness; acute ischemic stroke; augmentation index; in-hospital mortality; pulse wave velocity.

MeSH terms

Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Aorta / physiopathology*
Brain Ischemia / pathology*
Diabetes Mellitus / epidemiology
Female
Hospital Mortality / trends
Hospitalization
Humans
Length of Stay / statistics & numerical data
Male
Pressure
Prospective Studies
Pulse Wave Analysis / methods*
Severity of Illness Index
Stroke / epidemiology
Stroke / mortality*
Vascular Stiffness