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15358958

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-9-10
pubmed:abstractText
Hyperacute, spontaneous, and severe parenchymal postischemic hemorrhage is considered rare but might be frequently misdiagnosed as primary intracerebral hemorrhage. The authors report 2 patients with catastrophic postischemic hemorrhage unrelated to anticoagulation, thrombolytics, or coagulopathy. Patient 1 was a 73-year-old woman with left posterior frontal lobe infarction, followed at 5.5 hours by massive postischemic hemorrhage leading to death. Patient 2 was a 52-year-old man with recent brain irradiation who developed left middle cerebral artery occlusion and basal ganglia infarction. Initial gradient-echo magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed petechial hemorrhage within areas of infarction and widespread old microbleeds. He developed massive postischemic hemorrhage at 12 hours, leading to death. The authors conclude that early brain imaging is essential to distinguish postischemic from primary brain hemorrhage. In patients with ischemic stroke, MRI findings such as hyperacute petechial hemorrhage or chronic cerebral microbleeds might predict subsequent parenchymal hemorrhage and thus have implications for tissue plasminogen activator use.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
1051-2284
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
14
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
361-4
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2004
pubmed:articleTitle
Spontaneous hyperacute postischemic hemorrhage leading to death.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA. eesmith@partners.org
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Case Reports, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't