Korean Journal of Cerebrovascular Disease  2002;4(1):27-30

Intracerebral Hemorrhage in Geriatric Patients.

Gook Ki KIM 1 ; Eun Seok CHOI ; Young Jin LIM ; Won LEEM

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Keywords

Spontaneous ICH; Elderly patients; Mortality; Morbidity; Prognosis

Country

Republic of Korea

Language

Korean

Abstract

There are so many differences between the elderly patients and the younger patients in the aspects of a causes and the clinical course of spontaneous intracerebral hemorrage (ICH). As the mean life-time of a general population goes longer, the incidence of spontaneous ICH increases but the aggressive support in ICH is withdrawn more commonly and a prognosis of ICH becomes poor. Therefore, a prevention of ICH and a strict control of hypertension is very very important.