title: Myocardial infarction presenting as stroke.
abstract: This study covers a small subset of patients who presented as stroke without any signs and symptoms of acute myocardial infarction (MI). 0.5% of patients sustained acute stroke in acute MI and 1.6% of total MI presented as stroke. 22% of "stroke complicating MI" presented as stroke at the time of admission. This study is presented mainly to highlight the rare presentation of MI, importance of taking an urgent EKG in all cases of acute stroke and the treatment of acute MI is different from that of stroke.
authors.affiliation: Dr. Nairs Hospital, Quilon, Kerala.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Balachandran
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D020521:Stroke / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis