ABSTRACT
A variety neurological symptoms can be the onset of an acute myocardial infarction. The study includes 96 patients who have undergone necropsies (from 1978 to 2003), hospitalized at the "Sfânta Treime" University Hospital, Iasi, in the Neurology Clinic. They were admitted for various neurological manifestations: hemiparesis, hemiplegia, aphasia, coma of the 1st degree up to the 4th. Death of these patients was due to acute myocardial infarction in the cases of most of them, even those with significant brain damage. We have taken into account the anatomic pathology of the heart, brain, kidneys and lungs. The prevalence of the factors of cardiovascular risk was considered in our study, as well as the topography of the myocardial infarction. Patients with acute myocardial infarction can present major neurological symptoms with no significant cardiovascular clinical symptoms.
