BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Differentiation of tumorous intracerebral hemorrhage from benign etiology is critical in initial treatment plan and prognosis. Our aim was to investigate the diagnostic value of CT densitometry to discriminate tumorous and nontumorous causes of acute intracerebral hemorrhage. MATERIALS AND METHODS This retrospective study included 110 patients with acute intracerebral h...

BACKGROUND This study was aimed at determining the outcome and examining the association between comorbidities and mortality after intracerebral hemorrhage in chronic dialysis patients. METHODS We used the Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database and enrolled patients who underwent maintenance dialysis between 2000 and 2007. Annual incidence of intracerebral hemorrhage in patients r...

Intracerebral hemorrhage is the second most common subtype of stroke. In recent decades our understanding of intracerebral hemorrhage has improved. New risk factors have been identified; more knowledge has been obtained on previously known risk factors; and new imaging techniques allow for in vivo assessment of preclinical markers of intracerebral hemorrhage. In this review the latest developme...

Intracerebral hemorrhage is a stroke subtype with high mortality and poor functional outcome in survivors. Its main causes are hypertension, cerebral amyloid angiopathy, anticoagulant treatment. Hematomas have frequency of expansion the first hours after symptom onset, process associated neurologic deterioration outcome. Control severe reversal effect, management increased intracranial pressure...

To investigate whether the observed association of leukoaraiosis with intracerebral hemorrhage is direct or mediated by risk factors, we compared 116 patients with intracerebral hemorrhage confirmed by computed tomography and 155 controls without intracerebral hemorrhage, evaluating the prevalence of leukoaraiosis and vascular risk factors. Leukoaraiosis was observed in 21 (18%) of the 116 pati...

BACKGROUND Delayed intracerebral hemorrhage after ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunt insertion is rare and has not been well investigated previously. Its characteristics is still unknown. OBJECTIVE We reported 12 patients with delayed intracerebral hemorrhage after VP shunt to investigate the potential risk factors and the outcome. RESULTS 12 patients (1.59%) of all the 754 hydrocephalus had d...

BACKGROUND Cerebral vasospasm is commonly seen in subarachnoid hemorrhage. However the vasospasm in spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage without subarachnoid extension has not been described. REPORT We report a patient who developed intracerebral hemorrhage associated with cerebral vasospasm demonstrated by conventional angiography. The vasospasm involved the superior and inferior divisions o...

Objective: To discover and analyze the value of coagulant molecular marker in diagnosis of cerebral infarction after intracerebral hemorrhage. Methods: In this study, we selected a total of 42 patients with cerebral infarction after intracerebral hemorrhage as the experiment group; additionally, 42 patients with intracerebral hemorrhage were enrolled as the hemorrhage control group; besides, 42...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Coated platelets are produced on dual agonist stimulation with collagen and thrombin. These highly procoagulant platelets are critical to normal hemostasis, and an earlier study demonstrated decreased coated platelet production in patients with spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage. We have expanded this observation to investigate if coated platelet levels correlate with b...

Intracerebral hemorrhage and subarachnoid hemorrhage have different pathogeneses and risk factor profiles. However, little information is available on the difference between intracerebral and subarachnoid hemorrhages in relation to blood pressure. We prospectively investigated the relationships between blood pressure and risks of stroke subtypes. We measured blood pressure and other cardiovascu...