title: [Spontaneous subarachnoid hemorrhage].
abstract: The diagnosis, management and long-term implications of non-traumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage continue to be a multidisciplinary challenge. Often, the patients present to emergency or primary care physicians not particularly experienced in the differential diagnosis of headache. In most cases of a proven hemorrhage (aneurysm rupture in 85%), further treatment will require the discussion between experienced neurosurgeons and neuroradiologists whether to "clip or coil". Thus, subarachnoid hemorrhage is the first cerebrovascular disorder where a multidisciplinary approach has become the evidence-based standard of care. Patients with this condition are relatively young, and the survivors have a good life expectancy. Their neurologic, cognitive and psychiatric morbidity, risk of recurrent bleeding and elevated risk of other vascular diseases remain underestimated tasks for long-term care.
authors.affiliation: Zentrum der Neurologie und Neurochirurgie, Klinikum der J.W. Goethe-Universität, Schleusenweg 2-16, 60528 Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland. h.steinmetz@em.uni-frankfurt.de
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Steinmetz
mesh_terms: D017542:Aneurysm, Ruptured / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D013345:Subarachnoid Hemorrhage / Q000601:surgery*; D014656:Vascular Surgical Procedures / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*