Extra-Neurologic Complications of Subarachnoid Hemorrhage

Abstract

Subarachnoid hemorrhage is a pathology that affects mainly healthy young women. It can get complicated by secondary neurologic injuries like hydrocephalus, intracranial hypertension, seizure, and vasospasm. Subarachnoid hemorrhages may cause complication on extra-cerebral organs by catecholamine-mediated injury and systemic inflammatory response syndrome. These complications may be neurocardiogenic injury (e.g., cardiac dysfunction, electric modification), pulmonary (e.g., VAP, neurogenic pulmonary edema), and metabolic (e.g., electrolyte imbalance, acute kidney injury, hyperglycemia).