Caracterización de hallazgos tomográficos en pacientes con hemorragia subaracnoidea

OBJECTIVE: To characterize the tomographic findings of patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage performed at the private imaging center of Oriente de Zacapa in the years 2020 to 2024. METHOD: A retrospective descriptive study was carried out using a data collection tool to classify the tomographic reports of 190 cases meeting the inclusion and exclusion criteria. RESULTS: The 38% were between the ages of 29 and 39. The 76.8% were male and the remaining 23.2% were female. The 75.3% were of non-aneurysmal cause and 24.7% were of aneurysmal cause. 71.6% of the patients had multiple incidental findings such as sinusitis, extra axial collection, pineal gland calcification. 74.2% presented cerebral edema as a secondary complication. The majority 48.9% were classified as Fisher 2; followed by 21.6% classified as Fisher 3; then 16.8% classified as Fisher 4 and finally 12.6% classified as Fisher 1. CONCLUSION: The male sex was the most frequent with the age group of 29-39 years. The highest percentage of the sample was of non-aneurysmal cause. Most of the sample presented incidental findings, highlighting the importance of diagnosis of concomitant diseases and the most affected brain area was the temporal region. Regarding secondary complications, most of them presented cerebral edema. According to Fisher classification, Fisher 2 was the most observed classification.