Question 1

what could cause brain bleeding?

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Blood vessel disease: Defects of blood vessels in the brain can result in brain bleeding.  The most common is avm, then aneurysms.  These can be congenital or acquired.  Some bleeding can be caused by high blood pressure.  Bleeding disorders including homophilia and sickle cell can cause brain bleeding.  Trauma and shaking will result in bleeding over or into the brain.  Severe infections may cause bleeding as well.

Question 2

what's a level 2 brain bleeding?

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Premature?: Premature infants are subject to bleeding into their brains.  These bleeds are given grades 1, 2, 3, 4.  Grade 2 intraventricular hemorrhage (ivh) is blood into the ventricle but without dilation and without extension into the brain.  Grade 3 is major blood throughout the ventricles with dilation.  Grade 4 is bleeding into the substance of the brain.

Question 3

what can be done for brain bleeding?

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Intensive care: Bleeding into the brain is serious.  The cause must be found quickly.  Emergency surgery may be necessary to save life.  Then careful recovery with rehabilitation needs to be planned and initiated.  Careful and appropriate medical follow up is very important.

Question 4

what are the tests for brain bleeding?

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Imaging and CSF: Depending on the clinical circumstances, imaging by ct scan or MRI is the usual test for bleeds in the brain.  A spinal tap will disclose the bleed if it has reached the cerebrospinal fluid.

Question 5

what symptoms of brain bleeding are the most common?

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Brain bleeding: This is entirely dependent upon the location of the bleeding and the site of the bleeding.  For example, you can have quite a large bleeding in the front of the brain on one side and the only symptom might be headache (or even no symptoms).  A very small hemorrhage in certain locations deep in the brain can cause paralysis on one side of the body or even coma.

Question 6

looked up brain bleeding but still unsure what it is.?

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Blood out of bounds: Brain bleeding exists whenever blood is present within the skull outside of the blood vessels (vein, artery, capillary). Blood can be in brain, in CSF spaces including ventricles, subarachnoid, subdural, or epidural.  Damage is a function of volume, speed of accumulation and location of brain structures affected.  Surgery is often needed.

Question 7

what is the definition or description of: brain bleeding?

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Brain bleeding=: bleeding inside the the tissues of the brain, due to a variety of causes such as tumor, trauma, stroke, aneurysm rupture,  hypertension. Potentially life-threatening.

Question 8

are there official recommendations for treating brain bleeding?

Accepted Answer

Yes: You can review recommedations found in the handbook of neurosurgery by mark greenburg, md.  Recommendations include avoiding antiplatelet drugs, normalize coagulation status, watch for neurological change, normalize blood pressure, normalize temperature, elevate the head of the bed, and sometimes surgery.  There are many more depending on the type and location of the hemorrhage.

Question 9

need expert help here. what are the symptoms of your brain bleeding?

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Brain bleeding: The most common initial complaint is "this is the worst headache of my life". The headache is sudden in onset and severe.

Question 10

could this sound like brain bleeding or anything really bad?

Accepted Answer

Brain Bleed: It is usually acute and cause severe headache, requires immediate medical attention.

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