Our group - founded in 2018 with support from the Corona foundation – aims to study the crosstalk between brain and heart in patients with stroke.
We are an integrative research team located at the Center for Stroke Research Berlin and the Department of Neurology with Exp. Neurology at the Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany.
We perform highly interdisciplinary research at the interface of neurology and cardiology, clinical epidemiology and cardiovascular imaging.
BrainHeartLab's very own PD Dr. med. Simon Hellwig was recently featured in the newsletter of the Berlin Institute of Health Newsletter with his new publication: Unrecognized Myocardial Fibrosis Detected by Contrast-Enhanced Cardiovascular MRI in Patients With Ischemic Stroke.
As part of her doctoral thesis, Dr. med. Sophie Böhme conducted an observational study examining conditions that trigger a mismatch between myocardial oxygen supply and demand in patients with stroke. These conditions were found to be highly prevalent among patients with acute myocardial injury after stroke, especially in those meeting the criteria for acute myocardial infarction (MI).
