Cardiomyocyte Injury Following Acute Ischemic Stroke: Protocol for a Prospective Observational Cohort Study

Helena Stengl   ^{1, 2, 3} , MD ;   Ramanan Ganeshan   ^{1, 2} , MD ;   Simon Hellwig   ^{1, 2} , MD ;   Edyta Blaszczyk   ^{4, 5} , MD ;   Jochen B Fiebach   ² , MD ;   Christian H Nolte   ^{1, 2, 3, 4, 6} , MD ;   Axel Bauer   ⁷ , MD ;   Jeanette Schulz-Menger   ^{4, 5} , MD ;   Matthias Endres   ^{1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8} , MD ;   Jan F Scheitz   ^{1, 2, 3, 4} , MD

¹ Department of Neurology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

² Center for Stroke Research Berlin (CSB), Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

³ Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), Berlin, Germany

⁴ German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), partner site Berlin, Berlin, Germany

⁵ Working Group on Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, Experimental and Clinical Research Center, a Joint Cooperation Between the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Department of Internal Medicine and Cardiology and the Max-Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, and HELIOS Klinikum Berlin Buch, Department of Cardiology and Nephrology, Berlin, Germany

⁶ German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Partner site Berlin, Berlin, Germany

⁷ Working group on biosignal analysis, department of Cardiology, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

⁸ Excellence Cluster NeuroCure, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany