Haemorrhagic Stroke

What is haemorrhagic stroke?

A haemorrhagic stroke happens when blood from an artery bleeds into the brain after a blood vessel bursts.

What causes haemorrhagic stroke?

• Uncontrolled high blood pressure
• Overtreatment with blood thinners (anticoagulants)
• Bulges at weak spots in your blood vessel walls (aneurysms)
• Protein deposits in blood vessel walls that lead to weakness in the vessel wall (cerebral amyloid angiopathy)
• Ischemic stroke leading to hemorrhage (infarct with haemorrhagic transformation)

The warning signs of stroke are:

• Sudden onset of weakness or numbness on one side of the body.
• Sudden speech difficulty
• Sudden difficulty seeing in one or both eyes or double vision(diplopia)
• Sudden onset of dizziness, trouble walking or loss of balance.
• Sudden, severe headache with no known cause

However, symptoms can vary based on the location of the haemorrhage in the brain.

Management of haemorrhagic stroke

A patient who suffered haemorrhagic stroke needs to be seen at the emergency unit.