Abstract
The authors report an analysis of 85 patients with sudden death due to central nervous system diseases over a 10 year period. All cases had vascular disease, i.e. 34 cases (40.0%) had intracerebral hemorrhage, 47 cases (55.3%) had subarachnoid hemorrhage and 4 cases (4.7%) had cerebral infarction. Cases of sudden death are usually reported in the cardiovascular field. In this paper we examined the characteristics of sudden death due to central nervous system disease. Ninety-five percent of the cases had a bleeding vascular disease. Many of the patients who died within 2 hours of the attack had brain-stem infarction, subarachnoid hemorrhage or cerebellar hemorrhage.
