title: Can Herbal Medicine Cause Hematoma Enlargement of Hypertensive Intracerebral Hemorrhage within 24 hrs Time Window? A Retrospective Study of 256 Cases from a Single Center in China.
abstract: A retrospective review was performed of consecutive patients presenting with HICH within 24 hours of ictus presenting between March 2008 and March 2013 who were diagnosed as having HICH by CT scan. Of the 256 patients who matched study inclusion standard, 43 patients hematoma was enlarged (16.8%). The number of the patients who did not take PBC or RBC herbal medicine, took the PBC herbal medicine, and took RBS herbal medicine was 19 (44.2%), 2 (4.7%), and 22 (51.2%) in hematoma enlargement group and 78 (36.6%), 26 (12.2%), and 109 (51.2%) in nonhematoma enlargement group, individually. There was no significant difference between two groups (P = 0.671). PBC and RBS herbal medicine did not increase the incidence of hematoma expansion of ICH within 24 hours after onset of symptom.
authors: No. 1 Neurology Department, Guangdong Province Hospital of TCM, The Second Teaching Hospital of Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 111 Da'de Road, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province 510120, China ; Neurology Department, Qingyuan Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, Qingyuan, Guangdong Province 511500, China.
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authors: No. 1 Neurology Department, Guangdong Province Hospital of TCM, The Second Teaching Hospital of Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 111 Da'de Road, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province 510120, China.
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authors: No. 1 Neurology Department, Guangdong Province Hospital of TCM, The Second Teaching Hospital of Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 111 Da'de Road, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province 510120, China.
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authors: No. 1 Neurology Department, Guangdong Province Hospital of TCM, The Second Teaching Hospital of Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 111 Da'de Road, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province 510120, China.
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