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Table 1 Characteristics of patients with traumatic brain injury according to presence or not of intracranial bleeding on CT scan

From: Predictive factors of intracranial bleeding in head trauma patients receiving antiplatelet therapy admitted to an emergency department

 

CT group -

CT group +

p-value

Patient, N

267

26

 

Sex

 Women, n (%)

145 (54%)

11 (52%)

0.24

Age, mean +/− sd

80+/−11.1

80+/−10.5

0.98

  > 65 years, n (%)

237 (88%)

24 (92%)

0.75

  > 75 years, n (%)

209 (78%)

19 (73%)

0.54

Medical history, n (%)

 Stroke

61 (22%)

8 (32%)

0.30

 Cancer

36 (13%)

4 (15%)

0.76

 Major bleeding

9 (3%)

4 (15%)

0.02

 Risk of falling

149 (55%)

19 (73%)

0.10

 Renal or hepatic failure

69 (25%)

5 (19%)

0.45

 Hypertension

158 (63%)

18 (75%)

0.24

Antiplatelet, n (%)

 ASA alone

199 (74.5%)

17 (65.4%)

0.31

 Clopidogrel alone

46 (17.2%)

4 (15.4%)

0.81

 ASA + clopidogrel

18 (6%)

5 (19%)

0.04

 ASA + anti-Gp2b3a

4 (1.5%)

0 (0%)

1

Clinical characteristics, n (%)

 High-energy trauma

35 (13%)

5 (19%)

0.37

 Alcohol

13 (4%)

0 (0%)

0.61

 Loss of consciousness or amnesia

103 (38.5%)

19 (73%)

< 0.001

 Headache or vomiting

26 (9.7%)

9 (34.6%)

< 0.001

 Glasgow coma scale, median (IQR)

15 [15–15]

14 [13–15]

< 0.001

Biological characteristics, n (%)

 Anemia

67 (27%)

8 (30%)

0.68

 Thrombocytopenia

23 (9%)

2 (8%)

1

 CrCl ml/min, median (IQR)

66 [51–84]

65 [52–77]

0.72

  1. CT computed tomography, ASA acetylsalicylic acid, CrCl creatinine clearance, IQR interquartile range