Brain and heart have many connections both in disease and physiology. Most of the literature refers to neurological complication of underlying cardiac disease. In this case report we present a cardiac complication due to acute stroke, which is rather frequent in clinical practice. Here we present a patient with second degree heart block followed by neurological deficit, due to acute intracranial hemorrhage. The heart block regressed along with neurological stabilization a few days later.

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Dr Manomenane.M

Post Graduate, Department of General Medicine, Sri Manakula Vinayagar Medical College and Hospital