title: Neurologic complications of myocardial infarction.
abstract: Cardiac disease, in particular coronary artery disease, is the leading cause of mortality in developed nations. Strokes can complicate cardiac disease - either as result of left ventricular dysfunction and associated thrombus formation or of therapy for the cardiac disease. Antiplatelet drugs and anticoagulants routinely used to treat cardiac disease increase the risk for hemorrhagic stroke.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Loyola University Chicago, Stritch School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.
authors.forename: Moneera N
authors.initials: MN
authors.lastname: Haque
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Loyola University Chicago, Stritch School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA. Electronic address: rdieter@lumc.edu.
authors.forename: Robert S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Dieter
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000150:complications* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy; D009422:Nervous System Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy
keywords: Stroke; antiplatelet therapy; cardiac catheterization; congestive heart failure; left ventricular dysfunction; myocardial infarction