[Neurogenic gastrointestinal hemorrhage in hypertensive cerebral hemorrhage].

The purpose of this paper is to obtain the correlation between CT scan findings and neurogenic gastrointestinal bleeding in hypertensive intracerebral hemorrhage. Fifty patients with hypertensive intracerebral hemorrhage were operated upon during past nearly 3 years in our clinic. Of these, 27 patients (54%) showed macroscopic gastrointestinal bleeding (GI-bleeding) demonstrated by stomach catheter after the onset of hypertensive intracerebral hemorrhage. GI-bleeding was about 46% in the survived patients and about 77% in the expired ones. Most patients revealed neurogenic GI-bleeding within 9 days (85.2%) and more than half of the cases (51.9%) in 4 to 6 days after the onset. Neurogenic GI-bleeding was frequently complicated in patients with disturbed consciousness, over 60 gram hematoma (particularly 60-80 gram hematomas), severe ventricular hemorrhage and right-sided hematomas. It was also exclusively observed in patients with extension of hemorrhage into the midbrain and recurring hypertensive intracerebral hemorrhage.