Cerebral hemorrhage
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A cerebral hemorrhage is bleeding directly into the brain parenchyma (tissue) itself, otherwise known as hemorrhagic stroke. This is different from intracranial hemorrhage which is bleeding within the skull (cranium).
Among causes of cerebral hemorrhage are brain aneurysm, ruptured aneurysm, arteriosclerosis, cerebral arteriosclerosis, brain injury, head injury, congenital artery defect. It can also happen as a complication of hypertension, polycystic kidney disease, or whooping cough.
Hemorrhagic strokes account for 10-15% of all strokes. The mortality and long-term morbidity prognosis is generally worse for hemorrhagic strokes than embolic strokes.
The investigation of choice remains a CT scan of the brain.
Notable people who died of cerebral hemorrhage
- Josephine Baker, dancer
- Richard Burton, Welsh actor
- Kate Chopin, writer
- Philip G. Johnson, United Airlines executive
- Alfred Nobel, Swedish scientist
- Amrish Puri, Indian actor
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, writer
- Chester Alan Arthur United States president
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, United States president
- Arthur Schnitzler, writer
- Stuart Sutcliffe of the Beatles
- Winston Churchill, prime minister
- Joseph Stalin, Soviet leader
- Queen Victoria of England
- Johnny Olsen, Mr. Come On Down, the First announcer of Bob Barker's Price is Right and Match Game's only announcer
- Henry Ford, automobile manufacturer