The balance between hemorrhage and thrombosis in patients surviving spontaneous intracerebral bleeding: the nightmare of a neurologist

Abstract

With approximately 3 million people worldwide affected each year and the highly associated mortality and morbidity, intracerebral hemorrhage is the stroke subtype with the most severe clinical consequences. This is mainly due, on the one hand, to the lack of specific acute treatments, as opposed to the ischemic counterpart of stroke, on the other hand, to the occurrence of further vascular events after the index bleeding [...].