WORLD JOURNAL OF ADVANCE
HEALTHCARE RESEARCH

Bilal Nawfal Abdula, Jawad Ibrahim Rasheed, Fadil Ogla Bonyan, Asaad Abdullah Abbas and
Laith G. Shareef*

ABSTRACT

Strokes are a syndrome of rapidly developing clinical symptoms and signs of focal (or at times global) disturbance of cerebral function enduring more than 24 hours (unless interrupted by surgery or death), with no apparent cause other than of vascular origin. The majority are ischemic, secondary to arterial occlusion by in-situ thrombus or embolus, with the remainder being due to intracerebral haemorrhage or subarachnoid haemorrhage. The electro cardiac irregularities subsequent acute stroke are common and seen in both ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke. This research aims to find the relation of the Electrocardiogram (ECG) changes in patients with acute stroke and its pattern. A cross-sectional study conducted in the emergency department of Baghdad teaching hospital in Baghdad City/Iraq. Purposing sampling adopted, and the sample size were=100 patients. The central part of the sample was male 64. About half of them were 55–64 years old. Various ECG changes observed in the present study including rhythm disturbances (like S-T Depression, T Wave Inversion, Q-T Prolongation, Sinus Tachycardia, Sinus Bradycardia, U Wave, AF etc.) in 79 patients (79%), the association of various factors with mean values with ECG changes (Mean age, BMI, DBP, RBS) was more in patients with ECG changes than patients without ECG changes. However, this difference wasn't found to be statistically significant.