2010 Volume 32 Issue 6 Pages 589-594
The aim of this study to evaluate treatment results for brain hemorrhage at Kyorin University Faculty of Medicine. We treated consecutive 152 cases of brain hemorrhage. We studied to examine their treatment contents and mRS (modified Rankin scale) at the time of their discharge.
The surgeries were performed for 53 cases. Outcome of cerebellar and subcortical hemorrhage was relatively satisfactory compared to other bleeding sites and mRS: 0–2 was recognized in about 40% of the cases. In contrast, outcome of brain-stem hemorrhage was poor, and it caused 30% of overall mortality.
There has been no specific evidence regarding surgical intervention for brain hemorrhage. As for putaminal hemorrhage which is likely to develop pyramidal tract disorder, the functional prognosis tends to deteriorate easily compared to cerebellar and subcortical hemorrhage, and it was considered to be the limit for judging prognostic evaluation based on functional assessment. Decisions for surgical indication for severe cases and significance of lifesaving effects include important life ethical issues, which are to be worked on in order to establish decision making methods which can be effective with limited time and manpower and to combine them with the development and application of regenerative medicine in future.
