Study objective. To evaluate the clinical and laboratory and instrumental signs of pneumonia in patients with acute myocardial infarction and acute ischemic stroke. Study design. A retrospective analysis. Materials and methods. Authors reviewed archive data of 140 autopsy reports and medical histories of patients died from cardiovascular events to determine the frequency of pneumonia. The statistical analysis was used to associate fever, auscultatory changes, leukocytosis, chest radiography with pneumonia. Results and discussion. The study included 140 patients, of whom 84 (60.0%) with stroke in ischemic type 33 (23.6%) with stroke hemorrhagic type, and 23 (16.4%) with acute myocardial infarction. In patients with pneumonia auscultatory changes were in 86% of cases, fever in 87% of patients, leukocytosis in 87% of cases. Chests radiography changes of pneumonia were in 29 cases, and they were all patients with confirmed pneumonia in a retrospective analysis. Conclusion. Hyperthermia, leukocytosis and chest radiography changes were significantly more frequently encountered in patients with pneumonia, but their absence does not exclude pneumonia in patients with cardiovascular events.

Keywords: laboratory and instrumental signs of pneumonia, clinical manifestations of pneumonia, acute cerebrovascular accident, myocardial infarction