What are the different types of bleeding stroke?
There are two main types of bleeding stroke, divided by whether the bleeding is in the brain itself or in the space between the surface of the brain and the skull. Intracerebral hemorrhage is bleeding within the brain. The most common cause of intracerebral hemorrhage is high blood pressure,3 which can stress the walls of the delicate blood vessels in the brain and cause them to burst, leaking blood into surrounding brain tissue. Subarachnoid hemorrhage is bleeding in the tissue or space surrounding the brain. The most common cause of subarachnoid hemorrhage is an aneurysm—a thin or weak spot in a blood vessel that balloons out and can burst.
