The study included all consecutive patients with supratentorial ICH admitted to the Intensive Care Units of three Spanish hospitals with Neurosurgery Department between 2009 and 2012. Data collected: age, APACHE-II, Glasgow Coma Score (GCS), and pupillary anomalies on admission, intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) score, location/volume of hematoma, intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH), surgical evacuation alone or with additional external ventricular drain, and 30-days survival and at hospital discharge
A total of 263 patients were included. Mean age: 59.74 ± 14.14 years. GCS: 8 ± 4 points, APACHE II: 20.7 ± 7.68 points. ICH Score: 2.32 + 1.04 points. Pupillary anomalies were observed in 30%. The 30-day mortality: 51.3% (45.3% predicted by ICH-score), and 53.2% at hospital discharge. A significant difference (p = 0.004) was observed in hospital mortality rates between surgically treated patients (39.7%, n = 78) versus those conservatively managed (58.9%, n = 185); specifically in those with IVH surgically treated (34.2%, n = 38) versus non-operated IVH (67.2%, n = 125), p < 0.001. No significant difference was found between mortality rates in patients without IVH. Multiple logistic regression analysis showed an OR for surgery of 1.04 (95% CI; 0.33–3.22) in patients without IVH versus 0.19 (95% CI; 0.07–0.53) in patients with IVH (decreased mortality with surgical treatment). The propensity score analysis for IVH patients showed improved survival of operated group (OR 0.23, 95% CI; 0.07–0.75), p = 0.01.
Hospital mortality was lower in patients who underwent surgery compared to patients conservatively managed, specifically for the subgroup of patients with intraventricular hemorrhage.