PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Mashaly, Hazem Antar
AU  - Provencio, J. Javier
TI  - Inflammation as a link between brain injury and heart damage: The model of subarachnoid hemorrhage
DP  - 2008 Mar 01
TA  - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
PG  - S26--S30
VI  - 75
IP  - 3 suppl 2
4099  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/75/3_suppl_2/S26.short
4100  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/75/3_suppl_2/S26.full
SO  - Cleve Clin J Med2008 Mar 01; 75
AB  - Subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) serves as a good model for the study of heart-brain interactions because it is associated with both a high incidence of arrhythmia and a low prevalence of coronary heart disease. The pathophysiology of cardiac abnormalities in SAH is unsettled. Initial theories focused on sustained stimulation of cardiomyocytes at sympathetic nerve endings, but recent data suggest that dysfunction of the parasympathetic nervous system may contribute as well. We believe that the coupling of cate-cholamine release with parasympathetic dysfunction may allow unchecked inflammation that leads to myocardial dysfunction and cell death. We have developed a novel murine model of SAH to explore these potential inflammatory underpinnings of cardiac damage in SAH.