Brain Haemorrhage: Symptoms, causes, diagnosis and treatment of Brain Haemorrhage

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Brain Haemorrhage
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Brain Haemorrhage

• Brain haemorrhage is a type of stroke wherein
  damage induced to the artery results in localised
  bleeding in the brain, and destroys the tissues
  and cells in the vicinity. When the rupture
  caused to the wall of the blood vessels results
  in blood spill, the blood enters the area wherein
  vital tissues and cells of brain are located and
  kills them. It is a severe condition, wherein the
  person needs immediate medication/treatment - if
  the person is not subjected to proper treatment
  in time, it can result in further complications
  like loss of brain function and cause coma or
  death.

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Causes of brain haemorrhage

• Right from high blood pressure to brain tumour -
  any condition which causes the blood vessels to
  weaken can make you vulnerable to brain
  haemorrhage. In fact, 80 percent of the patients
  are known to have a history of high blood
  pressure. Other common conditions which
  contribute to weakening of blood vessels
  include head trauma (common in people under 50),
  aneurysm (which results in swelling of blood
  vessel walls thus making them vulnerable to
  bursting), blood vessel abnormalities (like
  amyloid angiopathy in aged people), bleeding
  disorders such as haemophiliaand anaemia,
  formation of some substances in the blood vessels
  which are carried along with blood to the brain,
  brain functional malformation, etc. In fact, you
  are at a high risk of suffering from brain
  haemorrhage, if 

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Causes of brain haemorrhage
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• You are constantly under pressure/stress in your
  personal or professional life.
• You have a family history of brain haemorrhage.
• You have weak blood vessels due to some
  underlying condition.
• You have a mutation in cystatin C gene.
• You suffer from chronic high blood pressure.
• You drink or smoke (or resort to substance abuse)
  very often.

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Symptoms

• Even though brain haemorrhage occurs in a flash
  without any warning in most of the cases, some
  symptoms are considered to be the warning bells
  for impending disaster. You should look out for
  these haemorrhage symptoms to figure out if you
  are vulnerable to it. A sudden and very intense
  headache, vomiting/nausea are most common
  symptoms. If you experience that your body parts
  are not responding to your will, i.e., if you
  feel paralysed or in other words if you feel
  sudden numbness in body organs (this may be a
  momentary condition), then you should consult
  your neurologist for further diagnosis. In case
  of pinprick haemorrhages in the brain, the
  leakage of blood starts very slowly and very
  small quantity of blood spills out of the vessel
  in the sensitive area of the brain. In such
  cases, the patient does not get a severe stroke,
  but he slowly starts losing his consciousness.

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Diagnosis of brain haemorrhage

• There are series of tests that are used to
  diagnose a condition which is likely to lead to a
  haemorrhage. A CT (Computerised Tomography) scan
  or MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) scan can help
  find out where the haemorrhage has occurred.
  Lumbar puncture - i.e. surgical removal of fluid
  from the subarachnoid space of the lumbar region
  of the spinal cord for diagnostic
  purpose, angiography - imaging done by injecting
  a radio-opaque contrast agent into the blood
  vessel, etc., are other tests that are used in
  the diagnosis of brain haemorrhage.

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Treatments

• The treatment depends on its location and
  severity, so does the success of any surgery.
  Diagnostic radiology, interventional radiology
  and microsurgical techniques are a few treatment
  options available for haemorrhage. The doctor
  will select the best option depending on the type
  of haemorrhage. In most cases, surgery is
  employed in order to remove the spilled blood,
  and is followed by a stitch to the artery to stop
  the blood leakage. Treating it by surgery has its
  own pros and cons. While the patient can
  successfully come out of the deadly situation, in
  some cases he may end up losing his life. At
  times, the patient may even have to sacrifice the
  functionality of the affected organ as a
  consequence of a haemorrhage stroke. As brain
  haemorrhage causes severe stroke in patients,
  recovery of the patient carries many
  possibilities - some patients resume their normal
  life after treatment (which can be a long-term or
  short-term treatment depending upon therapy
  used), while some end up losing the functionality
  of the organ which was affected by the stroke.

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• It is very difficult to predict how much time
  recovery from haemorrhage will take as it is
  bound to differ from case to case.
• Though the fact that it can be fatal is quite
  alarming, the better part is that it can be
  prevented by identifying risk factors and working
  on them. Chronic blood pressure, for instance, is
  the biggest culprit when it comes to haemorrhage
  causes. It means treatment of hypertension can
  help you reduce the risk of suffering from brain
  haemorrhage. Same rule applies to other risk
  factors - such as head trauma, which can be
  prevented by taking necessary precautions like
  wearing helmet while riding a bike. With the
  consequences being so severe, it is wise to go by
  the age-old adage - prevention is better than
  cure.

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