The aim of the study was to characterise pregnancies where the fetus or neonate suffered from ICH with special focus on clinical and laboratory characteristics and time of bleeding onset.
Mortality rates can reach as high as 40% depending on patient clinical status, site and characteristics of the bleeding lesion, and the surgical procedure employed [ 1].
A low NIHSS score generally corresponds to patients with neurological deficit that is only slightly disabling, and is one of the exclusion criteria in summaries of product characteristics to avoid the risk of bleeding.
Baseline characteristics of patients with bleeding and distribution of bleeding sites are shown in Tables 1 and 2, respectively.
The characteristics of the patients with clinical evidence of bleeding (excluding those with extra-digestive bleeding) were compared with those of the patients without bleeding (Table 3).
Even within the same hospital, a fourfold variation in bivalirudin use existed across providers, after adjustment for risk of bleeding and patients' other characteristics.
Norwich DEFAB provides a quantitative assessment of the risk of malignancy incorporating patient characteristics of diabetes, ultrasound scan assessment of endometrial thickness, frequency of bleeding, age, and BMI.
These aids, while stratifying patients' risk of stroke according to their comorbidities, have either not similarly stratified patients' risk of bleeding or have stratified bleeding risk for warfarin according to limited patient characteristics.
Lastly, we did not analyse the influence of the sector on the costs consequences of bleeding because we thought it could be redundant with the patient's characteristics.
The risk of bleeding is dependent on many factors including intensity of anticoagulation and patient's intrinsic characteristics.
