Intracranial hemorrhage
Intracranial hemorrhage (ICH), also known as intracranial bleed, is bleeding within the skull. Subtypes are intracerebral bleeds (intraventricular bleeds and intraparenchymal bleeds), subarachnoid bleeds, epidural bleeds, and subdural bleeds.
| Intracranial hemorrhage | |
|---|---|
| Axial 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 |
Intracerebral bleeding affects 2.5 per 10,000 people each year.
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