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  • Intensive blood-pressure lowering in patients with acute cerebral hemorrhage

  • Sufyan Alrahbi, Rashid Alaraimi, Abdalla Alzaabi, Sophie Gosselin
  • Journal:
    Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine / Volume 20 / Issue 2 / March 2018
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    09 June 2017, pp. 256-259
    Print publication:
    March 2018
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  • Clinical question

    Is intensive blood pressure (BP) treatment (systolic BP target 110-139 mm Hg) better than standard antihypertensive treatment (systolic BP target 140-179 mm Hg) in reducing mortality and disability in patients with acute intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH)?

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    Qureshi AI, Palesch YY, Barsan WG, et al. Intensive blood-pressure lowering in patients with acute cerebral hemorrhage. N Engl J Med 2016;375(11):1033-43.

    Objective

    To determine the therapeutic benefit of intensive BP treatment compared to standard BP treatment in reducing death and disability after 3 months of follow-up among patients with ICH treated within 4.5 hours from onset of symptoms.