Cerebral-cardiac syndrome and its manifestation after acute stroke

Abstract

Cerebral-cardiac syndrome can be described as a complex of morphological, instrumental and clinical cardiac dysfunctions arising after acute stroke. Malfunction of the autonomic nervous system plays one of the main roles, resulting in local and systemic catecholamine cytotoxicity, neuroinflammation and free radical damage. Clinically it is manifested in arrhythmias and other ECG phenomena, systolic and diastolic dysfunction, increase risks of a sudden death, which requires identifying patients with such risk factors and developing new diagnostic and treatment recommendations. Refs 70.