Intracranial hemorrhage causes
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Intracranial hemorrhage Microchapters |
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
Causes
Intracranial bleeding occurs when a blood vessel in the head is ruptured or leaks. It can result from physical trauma (as occurs in head injury) or non-traumatic causes (as occurs in hemorrhagic stroke) such as a ruptured aneurysm (ballooning blood vessel).
Extradural Hemorrhage
- Rarely hemorrhage from a fracture gap, injured venous sinus or arachnoid villi
- Skull fracture
Intracerebral Hemorrhage
- After cerebral infarction
- Aneurysm
- Angioma
- Anticoagulant medication
- Drugs- Sumatriptan
- Hypertension
- Perinatal hemorrhage
- Trauma
- Tumor
Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
- Arteriovenous malformation
- Brain tumor
- Drugs- Pergolide, Sumatriptan
- Fibromuscular dysplasia (FMD)
- Hemorrhagic diathesis
- Infections
- Leukemia
- Mycotic aneurysm
- Other aneurysms
- Connective tissue diseases
- Polycystic kidney disease
- Ruptured intracerebral aneurysm
Subdural Hemorrhage
- Usually due to head injury