The Development of Drug Delivery Systems for Efficient Intracranial Hemorrhage Therapy.

Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) is the most devastating form of stroke, which accounts for 10-15% and causes high morbidity and mortality. With the continuous exploration of the pathological mechanism of ICH, the extensive researches focusing on ICH therapy have been conducted. However, the traditional treatment methods, such as surgery for removing the hematoma and pharmacotherapy for improving the clearance of the hematoma and neuroprotection, are greatly limited due to their poor practicality and treatment efficiency. The rapid development of drug delivery systems offers an important prospect for treating ICH as they exhibit great versatility, which can improve the pharmacokinetic behavior of drugs in vivo, increase the drug accumulation in specific cell types or tissues and enhance the therapeutic effect with diminished toxic effect. In this review, we comprehensively describe the main molecular pathological mechanisms of ICH and also discuss the limitation of traditional pharmacotherapy. Then the development based on drug delivery systems for treating ICH is highlighted. Finally, based on these discussions we summarize the challenges of drug delivery systems with a view to providing a new feasible path for the treatment of ICH. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.