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Impact of cardiac complications on outcome after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage Figure 1: Search strategy explained.
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Electronic search: Pubmed: 2169 studies
Title screening: 1908 studies excluded
(no SAH 1840, letter/editorial 8, case report 34, animal studies 24, no cardiac data 2)
261 studies possibly relevant
Detailed evaluation abstract: 175 studies excluded
(no SAH 1, case reports 77, <11 patients 3, no prognostic data 73, review s 21)
86 studies probably relevant
Detailed evaluation full-paper evaluation: 61 studies excluded
(no outcome data 27, combined cardiac data 3, proportions of cardiac abnormalities not given 18, <11 pts. 2, letter 3, case report 4, overlapping studies 2, non-consecutive 2)
25 studies included
INCLUDED
Data on Troponins and: Death: 2 studies Poor outcome: 2 studies
DCI: 3 studies
INCLUDED
Data on CK-MBs and: Death: 2 studies Poor outcome: 1 study
DCI: 4 studies
INCLUDED
Data on ECGs and: Death:8 studies Poor outcome: 2 studies DCI:1 study
INCLUDED
Data on BNPs and: Death: 1 study Poor outcome: 0 studies
DCI: 2 studies
INCLUDED
Data on WMAs and: Death:4 studies Poor outcome: 0 studies DCI: 1 study
Pts: patients. WMAs: echocardiographic wall motion abnormalities, DCI: delayed cerebral ischemia, BNP: brain natriuretic peptide.
After title screening and detailed abstract evaluation, 86 studies were selected. After detailed full paper evaluation, 25 studies were included in this meta-analysis.
Baseline Characteristics
Table 1 presents the baseline characteristics of patients included in the analysis.
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