[Three cases of traumatic intracerebral hematoma with ventricular hemorrhage (author's transl)].
Three heavy drinkers, the patients fell down stairs while inebriated and were hit on their heads. Utilizing CT, we found that the hematomas in all three cases were accompanied by ventricular hemorrhage which, in two of the cases, were similar to hypertensive intracerebral hematoma in the basal ganglia. None of the three had a history of hypertension. We are of the opinion that the vulnerability of cerebral arteries, especially in the basal ganglia, of such heavy drinkers added to the traumatic force and led to the pathogenic bleeding. We were unable to find a correlation between the intracerebral hematoma and the site of the hit. It is assumed that immediate removal of the hematoma in cases of intracerebral hematoma with ventricular bleeding can result in the survival of the patient.
D000328:Adult; D000437:Alcoholism; D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000150:complications*; D002543:Cerebral Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology*; D002552:Cerebral Ventricles; D006406:Hematoma / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011379:Prognosis