The Mental Symptoms of Brain Disease. An Aid to the Surgical Treatment of Insanity, Due to Injury, Hemorrhage, Tumors and Other Circumscribed Lesions of the Brain.In this work, the author deals with insanity based on focal lesions in the brain. Through the study and proper interpretation of ...
A brain hemorrhage is a type of stroke. A brain hemorrhage is bleeding in or around the brain. It is a form ofstroke. Causes of brain hemorrhage includehigh blood pressure(hypertension), abnormally weak or dilated (aneurysm) blood vessels that leak,drug abuse, andtrauma. Many people who exp...
Intracerebral hemorrhage.With this type of brain hemorrhage, blood pools in the tissue of your brain. It’s the second most common cause of stroke, and recovering from it can be challenging. It’s usually due to long-term, untreated high blood pressure. ...
Stroke, sudden impairment of brain function resulting from a substantial reduction in blood flow to some part of the brain or from intracranial bleeding. The consequences of stroke may include transient or lasting paralysis, difficulties in speaking or e
Secondary hypertension is associated with an underlying disease, which may be renal, neurologic, or endocrine in origin; examples of such diseases include Bright disease (glomerulonephritis; inflammation of the urine-producing structures in the kidney), atherosclerosis of blood vessels in the brain, ...
cause is a blocked artery in your brain. Strokes also can be caused by bleeding in the brain, which not only disrupts normal blood flow, but also puts harmful pressure on brain tissues. In either kind of stroke, your brain cells can be damaged, potentially leading to disability or even ...
Traumatic brain injury is the most common cause of acute subdural hematoma (ASH). Subarachnoid hemorrhage is the most typical presentation of a ruptured aneurysm. However, in rare cases, the aneurysm may cause atraumatic ASH. Medications: Some blood thinners or anticoagulation medications may increase...
A brain hemorrhage is bleeding in or around the brain. There are a few types of brain hemorrhage: an intracranial hemorrhage is bleeding that occurs inside the skull; a cerebral hemorrhage, or intracerebral hemorrhage, is when there is bleeding around or within the brain itself, according to th...
such astoxoplasmosis, which is transmitted in a cat's fecal matter;toxocariasis, from roundworms found in dogs and cats; orcysticercosis, from food or water contaminated with pork tapeworm eggs. These infections usually cause only chills, fever, and swelling oflymph nodes, thoughseizuresand headach...
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