[Diagnosis, clinical course and prognosis of parenchymatous- ventricular hemorrhages]

As many as 61 patients with hemorrhagic brain stroke and blood penetration in the ventricular system were subjected to a clinical analysis. Based on the data available, attempts were made to predict an outcome of brain stroke. The authors describe the results of studying different aspects of the diagnostic algorithm of parenchymatous ventricular hemorrhages. In accordance with the clinical and computer-aided tomography data, consciousness disturbances, occlusion hydrocephalus, secondary stem syndrome as well as the localization, volume of hematomas and the degree of the blood filling of the ventricular system may serve as diagnostic predictors of brain hemorrhages. The authors' observations correspond with the conclusions made by foreign scientists that ventricular hemorrhages are not always fatal. Parenchymatous ventricular hemorrhages are likely to eventuate in a favourable outcome owing to the drug treatment.