Subarachnoid Hemorrhage

Abstract

The perils facing patients with ruptured intracranial aneurysms are clearly charted by Sundt and Whisnant in this issue of the Journal. They underscore the real hazards of ischemic infarction or rebleeding that commonly afflict these patients. Rebleeding (in one third of the authors' patients) is a well recognized problem, and measures to combat it are still in evolution. Ischemia, an equally devastating complication but one less well appreciated or understood, occurs in as many as 36 per cent of patients.¹ The onset is usually marked by drowsiness and the gradual progression of focal signs such as hemiparesis or dysphasia. . . .