Update on Intracerebral Hemorrhages

The second paper by Beuscher et al. [2] from Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, remediates the longstanding opinion that functional outcomes after leftvs. right-sided ICH results in different morbidity and/or mortality scores: after statistical corrections for confounding variables, there was no impact of hemispheric location on functional outcome after ICH. The third paper from a cooperation between Committees and Investigators of the PERFORM and PRoFESS trials [3] reevaluated the Intracranial-B2LEED3S score and the risk of intracranial hemorrhage in ischemic stroke patients during antiplatelet treatment: this score helps to identify patients who are at a high risk of bleeding but need to be improved by additional parameters (e.g., microbleeds). Michael G. Hennerici , Mannheim Three outstanding Original Papers are listed on the cover as “Highlights in this issue” and will now also be briefly introduced in this Editorial. They will be presented for free access in addition to new results reported by the SMART Study Group suggesting different etiologies of lacunar infarcts according to their different risk factor profiles with different progression in natural history. All 3 papers deal with Intracerebral Hemorrhages :