Table 1 Patients who underwent surgical decompression for HSE complicated by intracerebral hemorrhage
Reference | Age/Sex | Initial clinical presentation | Admission to hemorrhage lapse (days) | New symptoms associated with hemorrhage | Location | Treatment | Outcome | Other medical condition | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Medical | Surgical | ||||||||||
Acyclovir | Mannitol | Steroid | |||||||||
Rodriguez-Sainz et al. [8] | 45/F | fever, headache, incoherent speech | 9 | lt third nerve palsy, rt. hemiparesis, severe aphasia | lt temporal | ACV 10 mg/kg 8 h x 21d | o | x | DC + HE | rt hemiparesis, motor aphasia | hepatitis C |
Yan [9] | 37/M | fever, headache, bizarre behavior, hallucination, memory problem | 8 | altered mental status, anisocoric pupil | lt temporal | ACV 10 mg/kg/8 h x 18d | x | x | TL | full recovery | |
48/F | headache, altered mental status, hemianopsia | 10 | rt hemiparesis, anisocoric pupil | lt temporal | ACV 10 mg/kg/8 h x 12d | x | x | DC + TL | mild stuttering | ||
Counsell et al. [10] | 32/M | fever, headache, seizure | 10 | altered mental status, partial rt. third nerve palsy | rt fronto-temporal | ACV 10 mg/kg/d x 3d +10d (post-operative) | x | o | TL | full recovery | |
Jabbour et al. [11] | 27/M | fever, headache, seizure | 9 | altered mental status, partial rt. third nerve palsy | rt temporal | ACV 10 mg/kg/12 h (duration not specified) | x | x | HE | full recovery | iv heparinization for pulmonary embolism |
Li et al. [12] | 56/M | seizure, impairment in memory | 6 | altered mental status | lt temporal | ACV x 28d | x | x | DC + HE | impairment in word finding, memory impairment | HIV (+) |
Lo et al. [13] | 46/M | fever, headache, vomiting, confusion | 6 | rt hemiparesis, anisocoric pupil | lt temporal | ACV 10hg/kg/d x 36d | x | o | TL + HE + delayed DC | full recovery | |
Mueller et al. [14] | 40/F | fever, headache, nausea, photophobia | 7 | altered mental status, lt hemiparesis | rt temporal | ACV x 21d | x | x | DC + TL | not specified | |
Current case | 34/F | fever, headache, myalgia | 7 | altered mental status, anisocoric pupil | rt temporal | ACV x 14d | o | o | DC | full recovery | |