Intracerebral Hemorrhage

Psychosocial stress, especially financial stress, was associated with increased odds of experiencing intracerebral hemorrhage, with a particularly strong effect among Black and Hispanic patients, researchers reported.

The benefit of direct oral anticoagulants on stroke risk in patients with prior intracerebral hemorrhage and atrial fibrillation was partially offset by increased risk for future hemorrhage risk, a speaker reported.

For patients diagnosed with intracerebral hemorrhage, surgical intervention within 24 hours led to better functional outcomes at 180 days compared with medical management alone, researchers wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Compared with the general population, intracerebral hemorrhage in pregnancy is a rare occurrence with lower in-hospital mortality, according to a poster presented at the International Stroke Conference.

Use of assisted reproductive technology was associated with increased odds of stroke during index hospitalization for delivery, regardless of maternal age, researchers reported.

For those with either acute ischemic stroke or intracerebral hemorrhage, risk of dementia was three times higher after the first year and remained elevated as many as 20 years after, a speaker said at the International Stroke Conference.

Chronic hepatitis B virus infection was significantly associated with an increased risk for intracerebral hemorrhage but not other types of stroke in Chinese adults, according to data presented at the EASL Congress.

Viz.ai announced a collaboration with BIOS Clinical Trials Coordinating Center at Johns Hopkins University to facilitate patient enrollment for the NIH-funded Biomarker and Edema Attenuation in Intracerebral Hemorrhage study.

Patients with stroke due to nontraumatic intracerebral hemorrhage had significantly higher rates of major adverse cardiovascular events, researchers reported in JAMA Network Open.

Levetiracetam was safe and may be effective in preventing acute seizures in patients with spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage, according to clinical trial results in The Lancet Neurology.