Cardiac involvement in neurological diseases

Not only can cardiac diseases have neurological sequelae, but neurological diseases can also affect the heart. In this paper, the effects of a primary neurological disease on the heart are reviewed. Rare genetic muscular disorders, systemic neurodegenerative diseases, special neurological syndromes and sequelae of brain disease are discussed. A case vignette is used to illustrate that an undiagnosed neurological disease can trigger cardiac disease. Brain imaging should therefore always be considered in cardiac disease.