Muscle, peripheral nerve and autonomic changes

Muscle, peripheral nerve and autonomic disorders associated with acute cerebrovascular events are a large spectrum of conditions, their pathophysiology, clinical features, frequencies of occurrence, prognosis and treatment are diverse; the disturbances may be primary or secondary to acute cerebrovascular events. These disorders have been previously defined as multiple neurological complications as the underlying pathophysiological mechanism may largely differ; their characterization may need a full clinical, neuroradiological, neurophysiological, immunological, biochemical and genetic analyses assessment, and an autonomic function test may also be needed as well as nerve and muscle biopsy. In this chapter we present multiple neurological complications secondary to acute cerbrovascular events.