Abstract
Objective To explore the effect of the joint edaravone in early rehabilitation on the prognosis of patients with ischemic stroke. Methods The general branch of Kailuan group of patients with ischemic stroke who were conformed to the 1995 national conference on the 4th cerebrovascular diagnostic criteria with head CT or MRI imaging diagnosis, were collected from January 2012 to December 2014. A total of 324 cases were the first onset, who had been treated with conventional drugs, and were randomly divided into the observation group(edaravone associated with early rehabilitation)and the control group(early rehabilitation)with 162 cases in each group. Patients of the observation group were given venous application of edaravone and received the standardized rehabilitation treatment within 48 hours. The control group were given standard rebabilitation therapy at 2 weeks after attacked. NIHSS and MMSE scores of the two groups of patients were evaluated at the beginning of the rehabilitation course,4 weeks and 12 weeks of the treatments. Results There were no statistically significant difference and the clinial manifestations of the lesion site between the two groups of patients on admission.At the beginning of the rehabilitation,the NIHSS and MMSE score of control group were statistically significant different from that of observation group[NIHSS:(14.8±5.3)vs.(16.1±5.1),PNIHSS=0.049;MMSE:(15.9±6.3)vs.(14.2±6.2),PMMSE=0.041].The second and third evaluation were respectively conducted at 4 weeks[NIHSS:(10.1±6.3)vs.(8.2±5.7),MMSE:(17.7±5.5)vs.(20.9±5.9)] and 12 weeks[NIHSS:(6.6±4.9)vs.(4.7±3.6),MMSE:(21.0±4.8)vs.(24.6±4.9)].The results of the observation group were significantly better than the control group(P4W NIHSS=0.036,P4W MMSE=0.035;P12W NIHSS =0.006,P12W MMSE=0.003), and the differences were statistically significant. Conclusion Edaravone associated with early rehabilitation can obviously improve the prognosis of patients with ischemic stroke. Key words: Edaravone; Rehabilitation; Ischemic stroke; National institutes of health stroke scale; Minimum mental state examination
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