Mechanisms of cardiac rhythm disorder in hypothalamic lesions in basal meningiomas before and after surgery
Spirin, B.G.; Lykoshina, L.E.
Zhurnal Nevropatologii i Psikhiatrii Imeni S.S. Korsakova 79(5): 562-570
1979
ISSN/ISBN: 0044-4588 PMID: 88138 Document Number: 149882
Seventeen of 27 patients studied before and after surgical operations for basal meningioma frequently showed forms of cardial sinusal arythmia, sinusal tachycardia and ventricular extrasystolia. These pathological changes in cardiac rhythmics appeared and were aggravated during the postoperational period. Their possible pathophysiological mechanisms, due to the effect of the tumor and operative injury to the hypothalamo-diencephalic apparatus are discussed.