Intracranial hemorrhage

Intracranial hemorrhage
Intracranial hemorrhage
	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

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]

Intracerebral bleeding affects 2.5 per 10,000 people each year.^[1]

^ ^a ^b Caceres JA, Goldstein JN (August 2012). "Intracranial hemorrhage". Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America. 30 (3): 771–794. doi:10.1016/j.emc.2012.06.003. PMC 3443867. PMID 22974648.
^ Naidich TP, Castillo M, Cha S, Smirniotopoulos JG (2012). Imaging of the Brain, Expert Radiology Series,1: Imaging of the Brain. Elsevier Health Sciences. p. 387. ISBN 978-1416050094.