Hemorrhagic stroke
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Hemorrhagic stroke
A hemorrhagic stroke develops when a blood vessel (artery) in the brain leaks or bursts (ruptures). This causes bleeding:
- Inside the brain tissue (intracerebral hemorrhage).
- Near the surface of the brain (subarachnoid hemorrhage or subdural hemorrhage), which most often occurs after a head injury. A common cause of subarachnoid hemorrhage is the rupture of an aneurysm.
Hemorrhagic strokes are not as common as strokes caused by a blood clot (ischemic strokes). However, hemorrhagic strokes cause death more often than ischemic strokes.1 See the difference between an ischemic stroke and a hemorrhagic stroke 
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References
Citations
Sacco RL (2005). Pathogenesis, classification, and epidemiology of cerebrovascular disease. In L Rowland, ed., Merritt's Neurology, 11th ed., pp. 275–290. New York: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
Credits
| Author | Robin Parks, MS |
| Editor | Kathleen M. Ariss, MS |
| Associate Editor | Pat Truman, MATC |
| Primary Medical Reviewer | Anne C. Poinier, MD - Internal Medicine |
| Specialist Medical Reviewer | Richard D. Zorowitz, MD - Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation |
| Last Updated | March 6, 2007 |
| Last updated: | March 06, 2007 |
|---|---|
| Author: | Robin Parks, MS |
| Reviewed By: | Anne C. Poinier, MD - Internal Medicine, Richard D. Zorowitz, MD - Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation |
| Editors: | Kathleen M. Ariss, MS, Pat Truman, MATC |
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