Consent for Brain Tissue Donation after Intracerebral Haemorrhage: A Community-Based Study.

Background: Spontaneous intracerebral haemorrhage is a devastating form of stroke and its incidence increases with age. Obtaining brain tissue following intracerebral haemorrhage helps to understand its cause. Given declining autopsy rates worldwide, the feasibility of establishing an autopsy-based collection and its generalisability are uncertain.

Long-term prognosis after intracerebral haemorrhage: systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background And Aim: There is uncertainty about the long-term prognosis after spontaneous intracerebral haemorrhage (ICH). Therefore, we systematically reviewed the literature for studies reporting long-term survival and ICH recurrence, and their predictors.

Methods: We searched Ovid Medline 1946-2011 inclusive for cohort studies of ≥50 patients reporting long-term (>30 days) outcome after ICH.

Eligibility for randomized trials of treatments specifically for intracerebral hemorrhage: community-based study.

Background And Purpose: Acute treatments specifically for intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) are being sought in randomized controlled trials. The treatment effect sizes in ongoing and future trials are likely to be small, necessitating large sample sizes.

Methods: We searched online trial registries for randomized controlled trials investigating an acute treatment for ICH.