Definition of hypertensive intracerebral hemorrhage

Hypertensive intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) is a disease in which the walls of small cerebral arteries are denatured and necrotic due to long-term high blood pressure in patients with hypertension, resulting in rupture of cerebral blood vessels. Bleeding usually occurs in deep areas of brain tissue, such as the basal ganglia, brainstem and cerebellum

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