Article Topic: Intracerebral Hemorrhage (ICH) Author name: Mohammad Ahmad Sawaftah keywords: Cerebrovascular accident , hemorrhagic stroke , intracerebral hemorrhage Overview and Epidemiology: Stroke is an acute vascular injury of the brain tissue, causing impaired blood delivery either due to ischemia or hemorrhage (intracerebral hemorrhage ICH and subarachnoid hemorrhage)(1). It accounts major numbers of deaths annually and is also a leading cause of disability globally(2). In 2017, more than 100 million cases of stroke were reported worldwide, around 80% of them were ischemic stroke, and the rest were classified as hemorrhagic stroke (17.9 million cases of intracerebral hemorrhage and 9.3 million […]
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