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MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Intracerebral hemorrhage (805 words) |
 | An intracerebral hemorrhage is bleeding in the brain caused by the rupture of a blood vessel within the head. |
| Blood may accumulate in the brain tissues itself, or in the space between the brain and the membranes covering it. |
| The bleeding may be isolated to part of one hemisphere (lobar intracerebral hemorrhage) or it may occur in other brain structures, such as the thalamus, basal ganglia, pons, or cerebellum (deep intracerebral hemorrhage). |
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| Onset is at age 40-60 with headaches, brain hemorrhage often in the parietal lobe, strokes, and dementia. |
| Brain hemorrhage is rare as the amyloid protein is deposited in blood vessels in the eye and meninges (brain coverings), but not in the brain itself. |
| Brain biopsy (surgical removal of a small piece of brain tissue) may show characteristic amyloid deposits, but is rarely performed, as the risk may not be justifiable in the absence of effective treatment for CAA. |
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