Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) is an often fatal type of stroke that kills approximately 30,000 people annually in the United States. If the patient survives the ictus, then the resulting hematoma within brain parenchyma triggers a series of adverse events causing secondary insults and severe neurological deficits. This article discusses selected aspects of secondary brain injury after ICH and ...

A 77-year-old female presented with a rare aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage accompanied by a remote hypertensive intracerebral hemorrhage. With a past history of hypertension, she suddenly developed right hemiparesis followed by delayed loss of consciousness. Left carotid angiography demonstrated a left internal carotid-posterior communicating artery aneurysm. The intracerebral hematoma was l...

Two unusual cases of brain metastasis from hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) are described. A 15-year old boy presented with intracerebral hemorrhage from brain metastasis from HCC, and died of rebleeding 1 month after surgery. Cerebral metastatic HCC in a child is quite rare, and has not previously been reported. A 65-year-old male with a 2-year history of treatment for HCC presented with a brain...

Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) is an often fatal type of stroke that kills 30 000 people annually in the United States. If the patient survives the ictus, then the resulting hematoma within brain parenchyma triggers a series of adverse events causing secondary insults and severe neurological deficits. This article discusses selected aspects of secondary brain injury after ICH and outlines key m...

AIM The aim of this study is to define the position of surgery preference in the treatment choice for spontaneous intracerebral hematoma (ICH) and to compare the efficacy of surgery with the medical treatment based on data from 18 previously reported randomized prospective studies on this topic. MATERIAL AND METHODS Literature databases and articles were searched from 1960 to 2010. Eighteen r...