Case Report
Acute cardiac injury after subarachnoid haemorrhage: two case reports
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* Corresponding author: Marcello Marcì marcellomarci@katamail.com
1 Cardiology Department, Azienda Ospedaliera Villa Sofia, Palermo, Italy
2 Neurosurgery Department, Azienda Ospedaliera Villa Sofia, Palermo, Italy
Cases Journal 2009, 2:9293 doi:10.1186/1757-1626-2-9293
Published: 9 December 2009Abstract
It is well known that cardiopulmonary complications are often associated to subarachnoid haemorrhage. For appropriate therapeutic managing it is very important to distinguish acute coronary syndrome from neurogenic myocardial injury, which is a reversible condition. Furthermore, because the hearts of brain dead patients may be utilized for therapeutic purpose, it has became of importance to rule out erroneous diagnosis of cardiac ischemia in order to avoid rejection of hearts potential suitable for transplantation.
We present a report of two female patients affected by cardiac complications caused by aneurismal subarachnoid haemorrhage admitted to our neurosurgical intensive care department.