Body Temperature in Acute Stroke

Abstract

To the Editor: I read with great interest the recent article by Boysen and Christensen1 on body temperature. Their study is probably the first to have described the hourly changes in body temperature after onset of stroke and intracerebral hemorrhage. Although they used paracetamol for the patient with a body temperature >37°C, the pattern was very similar to that observed in an animal experiment.2 This suggests that the basic mechanisms underlying the temperature …