Rare diseases · Sign or symptom
Cerebral hemorrhage
Bleeding in brain
HP:0001342
What it means
Hemorrhage into the parenchyma of the brain.
A cerebral hemorrhage (or intracerebral hemorrhage, ICH), is a type of intracranial hemorrhage that occurs within the brain tissue itself.
In everyday care
Most people with this sign do not have a rare disease — it appears in common conditions far more often. These general reference pages cover the same topic:
Rare diseases that can present with this31
Very common80–99%
6Common30–79%
8- Acquired aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage
- Brain arteriovenous malformation, nidus type
- Congenital factor XIII deficiency
- Hereditary cerebral amyloid angiopathy
- Hereditary pheochromocytoma-paraganglioma
- Moyamoya angiopathy-short stature-facial dysmorphism-hypergonadotropic hypogonadism syndrome
- Non-functioning paraganglioma
- Sporadic pheochromocytoma/secreting paraganglioma
The range is how often this sign appears among people diagnosed with each disease — it is not a probability of having any of them. Many of these signs also occur in common, non-rare conditions. A sign on this page is a conversation to have with a clinician, not a conclusion.
Part of the broader category
Also called: Cerebral haemorrhage · Hemorrhagic stroke · Intracerebral haemorrhage · Intracerebral hemorrhage
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