Intracranial hemorrhage
Hemorrhage, or bleeding, within the skull / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Intracranial hemorrhage (ICH), also known as intracranial bleed, is bleeding within the skull.[1] Subtypes are intracerebral bleeds (intraventricular bleeds and intraparenchymal bleeds), subarachnoid bleeds, epidural bleeds, and subdural bleeds.[2]
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Intracranial hemorrhage | |
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Axiali CT scan of a spontaneous intracranial hemorrhage | |
Specialty | Emergency medicine |
Symptoms | Same symptoms as ischemic stroke, but unconsciousness, headache, nausea, stiff neck, and seizures are more often in brain hemorrhages than ischemic strokes |
Complications | Coma, persistent vegetative state, cardiac arrest (when bleeding is in the brain stem or is severe), death |
Types | Intracerebral hemorrhage, subarachnoid hemorrhage, epidural bleed, subdural bleed |
Causes | Stroke, head injury, ruptured aneurysm |
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Intracerebral bleeding affects 2.5 per 10,000 people each year.[1]