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The Pressure Cooker: Hypertension and Hemorrhagic Stroke

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Primary hemorrhage<br />

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Spontaneous without obvious underlying cause<br />

<strong>Hypertension</strong> <strong>and</strong> amyloid angiopathy account for 78-<br />

88% of primary hemorrhages<br />

Secondary hemorrhage<br />

� Results from underlying disease<br />

ICH are typically found in the basal ganglia,<br />

thalamus, subcortical white matter, cerebellum<br />

<strong>and</strong> pons

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