Hemorrhagia Cerebral
Also known as brain hemorrhage, brain bleed, cerebral hematoma, intracerebral hemorrhage, brain haemorrhage, cerebral haemorrhage, cerebral haematoma, intracerebral haemorrhage
type of intracranial hemorrhage that occurs within the brain tissue itself
Key facts
- Other names
- Cerebral haemorrhage, cerebral hemorrhage, intra-axial hemorrhage, cerebral hematoma, cerebral bleed, brain bleed, hemorrhagic stroke
- Specialty
- Neurosurgery , neurocritical care
- Complications
- Coma , persistent vegetative state , cardiac arrest (when bleeding is severe or in the brain stem), death
- Causes
- Brain trauma , aneurysms , arteriovenous malformations , brain tumors , hemorrhagic conversion of ischemic stroke
- Risk factors
- High blood pressure , diabetes , high cholesterol , amyloidosis , alcoholism , low cholesterol , blood thinners , cocaine use
- Diagnostic method
- CT scan
- Differential diagnosis
- Ischemic stroke
- Treatment
- Blood pressure control, surgery, ventricular drain
- Prognosis
- 20% good outcome
- Frequency
- 2.5 per 10,000 people a year
- Deaths