Discussion
Up until now, the best treatment for patients with spon- taneous ICH was still controversial.1,9-11 The data from Surgical Trial in Intracerebral Hemorrhage and other ran- domized, controlled trials suggest that surgery does not appear to offer advantages over conservative treatment in most patients with spontaneous ICH. However, patients with large SBH always experience progressive neurologic deterioration or cerebral herniation and this subgroup of patients have been excluded from most of these trials. Therefore, results of such trials can not be ex- trapolated to guide the treatment of rapidly deteriorating patients with SBH.12 In contrast, some authors held that operation should be performed as soon as possible if signs of clinical herniation or impairment of conscious- ness with descending tentorial herniation sign on CT scan were presented. They believed that early surgical evacuation of ICH was related to a better chance of survival or recovery.13
However, the removal of the hematoma may not be suf- ficient to relieve intracranial hypertension. The hemor- rhage itself triggers a series of negative pathogenetic mechanisms, which result in the loss of the cerebral