Objective: Determine Clinical epidemiological characteristics of mortality of patients with intraparenchymal hemorrhage.
Methods: We studied patients with diagnosis of intraparenchymal hemorrhage hospitalized at the Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Neurologicas, January 2008 to December 2010. We describe the demographic and clinical variables. In addition, the logistic regression model was used to determine the factors associated with mortality in these patients.
Results: We report 129 patients, median age was 57.2 years, 56.6 % were men. We calculated a ratio of 12.4% dead; the factors significantly associated are consciousness disorder, NIHSS scale score greater than 13, and intraparenchymal hemorrhage with ventricular involvement.
Conclusions: Factors associated with mortality by intraparenchymal hemorrhage were the presence of consciousness disorder, NIHSS scale score greater than 13, and intraparenchymal hemorrhage with ventricular involvement No association was found between classical vascular risk factors, etiologic or treatment types to intraparenchymal hemorrhage mortality.
 

Key words: Intraparenchymal hemorrhage, mortality.