Simultaneous hypertensive intracerebral haemorrhages: what are the odds?
The simultaneous development of two (or more) spontaneous, hypertensive, non-traumatic intraparenchymal cerebral haemorrhages is rare and constitutes less than 5.6% of all hypertensive cerebral haemorrhages. In addition to having a high early mortality, these haemorrhages carry a considerable morbidity figure in patients who survive the event. We report a 68-year-old hypertensive and diabetic woman who presented with a sudden onset of headache, vomiting, and dense right-sided weakness. In less than an hour, she became obtunded. An urgent non-contrast CT brain scan revealed two left-sided supratentorial hemispheric haemorrhages; putamenal and thalamic.
Department of Neurology, Sulaimaniya General Teaching Hospital, Sulaimaniya City, Iraq. dr.osama.amin@gmail.com
Osama S M
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D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D020299:Intracranial Hemorrhage, Hypertensive / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D026741:Physical Therapy Modalities; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed