THE VALUE OF ANGIOGRAPHY IN THE MANAGEMENT OF STROKE

Abstract

Between 1974 and 1980, about 1000 angiographic studies were performed at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital. Sixty seven of them were on patients presumed to have suffered stroke. Thirty-five of the stroke patients had vascular occlusions at various sites and fifteen had intracerebral haematorna . In seventeen patients other conditions mimicking stroke were unmasked. It is strongly recommended that cases of stroke should have the benefit of angiographic investigations which could unmask other lesions that often mimic stroke but are amenable to surgical treatment.