Patients assessed
(n = 120)
Age, median (IQR)
51 years (46–61 years)
Women
82 patients (68 %)
Hypertension
41 patients (34 %)
Smoker
31 patients (26 %)
WFNS grade
I
73 patients (61 %)
II
29 patients (24 %)
III
3 patients (2 %)
IV
11 patients (9 %)
V
4 patients (3 %)
Location of aneurysm
Anterior cerebral artery
31 patients (26 %)
PComA
18 patients (15 %)
ICA other than PComA
23 patients (26 %)
Middle cerebral artery
31 patients (26 %)
Posterior circulation
16 patients (13 %)
Aneurysm treatment
Coiling
59 patients (49 %)
Clipping
56 patients (47 %)
Delayed cerebral infarction
19 patients (16 %)
mRS
0
36 patients (30 %)
1
21 patients (18 %)
2
48 patients (40 %)
3
13 patients (11 %)
4
1 patients (1 %)
5
1 patients (1 %)
One or more cognitive domain deficits were found in 6 (32 %) patients with delayed cerebral infarction and 23 (23 %) patients without delayed cerebral infarction (odds ratio: 1.57, 0.54–4.58, p = 0.290). Cognitive impairment (two or more domain deficits) was found in 4(21 %) patients with delayed cerebral infarction and 11(11 %) patients without delayed cerebral infarction (odds ratio: 2.18, 0.61–7.76, p = 0.192). Cognitive domain deficits commonly affected in aSAH patients with delayed cerebral infarction were verbal memory (21 % vs 4 %; odds ratio: 6.47, 1.45–28.66, p = 0.021), language (16 % vs 6 %; odds ratio: 2.97, 0.67–13.09, p = 0.152), and visuospatial memory and skill (13 % vs 5 %; odds ratio: 2.42, 0.75–7.83, p = 0.126) domains (Table 2).
Table 2
Cognitive domain deficit in patients with and without delayed cerebral infarction (DCI)
