Electrocardiographic changes in relation with CT scan parameters in spontaneous intracerebral haemorrhage

Abstract

Sixty-three patients of spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage proved by computerised axial tomography (CT) scan were studied for electrocardiographic (ECG) changes and their correlation with CT scan parameters. ECG changes were observed in 81% (51 patients) with 28% mortality as compared to 9% mortality in patients without ECG changes. In 87% of survivors ECG changes regressed in 1st week of hospitalisation. ECG changes in all three parameters i.e. automaticity, conduction and repolarisation correlated well with mortality (60%), ventricular communication (VC), mass effect (ME) and volume of hematoma.