Rapid resolution of acute subdural hematoma is rare. Delayed traumatic intracerebral hematomas following medical or surgical treatment of increased intracranial pressure have also been reported. Coexistence of a quickly resolving acute subdural hematoma and a delayed traumatic intracerebral hemorrhage has not been reported before. A 13-month-old boy was admitted to our emergency department afte...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to investigate the risk of future intracerebral hemorrhage development in patients with liver cirrhosis. METHODS Data were collected from the National Health Insurance Research Database of Taiwan. The study cohort included 948 patients with liver cirrhosis diagnosed in 1999 and 9480 age- and sex-matched patients of the same year. All patien...

We retrospectively studied 79 patients from three centers who suffered an intracerebral hemorrhage during treatment with anticoagulants and compared them with 84 patients from one center who suffered a spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage without anticoagulant treatment. Mortality after 30 days was slightly higher in patients with anticoagulant treatment (67%) than in those without (55%), and t...

BACKGROUND Intracranial fungal granulomas occur by extension from contiguous structures or by hematogenous dissemination from lungs. Isolated granulomas without any obvious source of infection are extremely uncommon. OBJECTIVE To describe isolated intracerebral Aspergillus spp. granuloma without any obvious source of infection. MATERIALS AND METHODS We analyzed clinical, radiological and pa...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether warfarin-treated patients with an international normalized ratio less than 1.7 who receive intravenous tissue plasminogen activator for acute ischemic stroke are at increased risk for symptomatic intracerebral hemorrhage. DESIGN Retrospective study. SETTING Academic hospital. PATIENTS Consecutive patients with acute ischemic stroke who are treated with intra...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Several recent studies analyzing perfusion changes in acute intracerebral hemorrhage fed the debate whether there is secondary ischemic tissue damage in the vicinity of intracerebral hemorrhage. We used perfusion CT to address this question. METHODS We examined 36 patients between 2001 and 2002 with acute intracerebral hemorrhage (within 24 hours after symptom onset). A...

BACKGROUND Patients suffering from intracerebral haemorrhage have a poor prognosis, especially if they are using antiplatelet therapy. Currently, no effective acute treatment option for intracerebral haemorrhage exists. Limiting the early growth of intracerebral haemorrhage volume which continues the first hours after admission seems a promising strategy. Because intracerebral haemorrhage patie...

Intracerebral hematoma is a fairly frequently occurring condition and a comprehensive review of the incidence, etiology, and treatment of this type of hematoma has been presented by Craig and Adson.' Although as early as 1903 Cushing4 reported the successful evacuation of an intracerebral dot, only sporadically since then have cases of successful surgical treatment of this type of hematoma been...

Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) accounts for 10 to 15% of all strokes, but results in a disproportionately high morbidity and mortality. Although chronic hypertension accounts for the majority of ICH, other common causes include cerebral amyloid angiopathy, sympathomimetic drugs of abuse, and underlying cerebral vascular anomalies. Validated baseline predictors of clinical outcome after ICH incl...

Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) represents a significant fraction of all strokes and causes a disproportionate amount of stroke related morbidity and mortality, especially in young blacks. While diagnosis of this disorder has greatly improved in the CT era, morbidity and mortality remain essentially unchanged. Not one currently utilized therapeutic modality has been clearly associated with a ben...