Background and Purpose Beneficial effects of calcium antagonists in cerebral ischemia and trauma have been attributed in part to improved cerebral blood flow. Enhancement of cerebral blood flow, however, could aggravate the pathological situation if brain injury is associated with intracerebral hemorrhage. In this study we used high-field magnetic resonance imaging in an animal model of intrace...

Encapsulated intracerebral haematoma (EICH)is an interesting and rare entity. In this paper; a chronic encapsulated intracerebral haematoma without vascular malformation is reported. Although the clinical course and radiological appearances suggested a brain tumour histopathological examination demonstrated a cap-

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Patients with any type of stroke managed in organized inpatient (stroke unit) care are more likely to survive, return home, and regain independence. However, it is uncertain whether these benefits apply equally to patients with intracerebral hemorrhage and ischemic stroke. METHODS We conducted a secondary analysis of a systematic review of controlled clinical trials com...

PURPOSE To determine whether arteriolar vessel wall degeneration in primary intracerebral hematomas might be associated with ischemic brain lesions and clinically silent (apparently intracerebral) previous hemorrhages. METHODS The MR images of 120 consecutive patients (mean age, 60 years; age range, 22 to 84 years) with their first stroke caused by a primary intracerebral hematoma were review...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE There is expanding literature to show that certain patients admitted during the weekend have worse outcomes than similar patients admitted during the week. Although many clinicians have hypothesized the presence of this "weekend effect" with patients with intracerebral hemorrhage, there is a paucity of studies validating this conjecture. METHODS We performed a retrospec...

We describe a patient with an intracerebral haemorrhage following an accidental dural puncture during an attempted epidural for pain relief in labour. Anaesthetists need to include intracerebral haemorrhage in the differential diagnosis of post-dural puncture headache in the puerperium.

PURPOSE To evaluate hemodynamic effects of mannitol infusion in patients with acute intracerebral hemorrhage. METHODS Thirty patients with acute intracerebral hemorrhage were enrolled. Transcranial doppler was used to detect variables of bilateral middle cerebral arteria (MCA) including mean velocity (Vm) and pulsitility index (PI) before and after 125 ml and 250 ml mannitol infusion (0, 30, ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE We tested the hypothesis that circulating microRNAs (miRNAs) present in plasma might display a specific signature in patients with intracerebral hemorrhage. METHODS Global miRNA profiles were determined with the Agilent Human miRNA Microarray platform, and validated by quantitative polymerase chain reaction. RESULTS A subset of 30 miRNAs were selectively upregulated i...

Spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage accounts for 4–5% of cases of acute stroke and is associated with a substantially worse prognosis than ischemic stroke. Spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage is associated with a high mortality rate, almost 50%. Intracranial hemorrhages associated with oral anticoagulants can be divided into intracerebral, subdural/epidural, and subarachnoid. ICH constitutes ...

To investigate the effect of intracerebral adipose neural stem cell transplantation in inflammatory process after brain HI. The study used 16male Wistar rats aged 2 months which were randomly divided into following group: Ischemia-Reperfusion group (IR, n=8) and ANSC-treated (IR+ANSC, n=8). IR was performed by right common carotid artery occlusion for hours, hypoxia procedure 1 hour reperfusion...