Correlation of Clinical Course, Angiography and CT in Patients After Subarachnoid Hemorrhage

The place of cerebral angiography in the investigation of patients suffering from a subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is well defined. Since its invention, cranial computerized tomography (CT) has gained increasing influence upon the management of those patients and is usually the first diagnostic step, instead of or before a lumbar puncture (1–3, 5, 6, 8, 10–21). In this study we try to correlate the clinical course throughout hospitalization with the findings of the two main diagnostic procedures, in order to obtain more information about the pre-operative status in patients with SAH with regard to the postoperative results.