lobar intracerebral hemorrhage

lobar intracerebral hemorrhage

Intraparenchymal hemorrhage An intracranial hemorrhage of the frontal, parietal, temporal, or occipital cortex which represents¹/₃ of cases of 1º, nontraumatic intracerebral hemorrhage Incidence 8.4/105/yr Pathogenesis LIH is more commonly linked to cerebral amyloid angiopathy–CAA than to hypertensive small vessel disease Diagnosis CAA is more common in those with the apolipoprotein E ε2 and ε4 than with the normal variant, ε3. See Cerebral amyloid angiopathy, Intracerebral hemorrhage. Cf Subarachnoid hemorrhage.