What would you expect the patient to suffer from?
Poorly controlled hypertension is the most common cause of a basal ganglia haemorrhage.
What stage of blood product degeneration is the central part of the hematoma?
Extracellular met-haemoglobin (bright on both T1 and T2).
MRI of the brain demonstrates the lesion to have signal consistent with blood (high T1 and T2 centrally, peripheral hemosiderin).