Abstract:Objective To investigate the influencing factors of brain microbleeds (CMBs) in patients with acute cerebral infarction (ACI) and the effect of CMBs on the incidence of recurrent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events in patients with ACI. Methods A total of 131 ACI patients admitted to the Department of Neurology, Wuhan NO. 1 Hospital from March 2014 to April 2017 were enrolled. The patients were divided into non-CMBs group (85 cases) and CMBs group (46 cases). According to the previous history of smoking, drinking, diabetes, hypertension, cerebral hemorrhage, the risk factors of CMBs in patients with ACI were discussed, and the effect of CMBs on the occurrence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events were analyzed. Results The past history of cerebral infarction and cerebral hemorrhage was a risk factor for CMBs. The general data such as age, gender, smoking, hypertension, coronary atherosclerotic heart disease (hereinafter referred to as coronary heart disease) were not risk factors for CMBs. Of the 131 patients, 46 were CMBs, and 183 brain microbleeds were detected. Of the 46 CMBs, 17 were severe, 13 were moderate, and 16 were mild. Cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events were mainly recurrent stroke, cerebral infarction, cerebral hemorrhage, ischemic heart disease and death. The incidence of recurrent stroke and cerebral hemorrhage in the CMBs group was significantly lower than that in the non-CMBs group (P < 0.05). The cerebral infarction, ischemic heart disease and mortality in the CMBs group were compared with those without CMBs. The difference was not statistically significant (P > 0.05); the difference between the severity of CMBs and the incidence of recurrent stroke was statistically significant (P < 0.05), and the incidence of severe CMBs was the highest. There was no significant difference between the severity of CMBs and the incidence of cerebral infarction, cerebral hemorrhage, ischemic heart disease and death (P > 0.05). Conclusions The past history of cerebral infarction and cerebral hemorrhage is a risk factor for CMBs, and CMBs can also increase the incidence of recurrent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events in ACI patients. The severity of CMBs is positively correlated with the incidence of cerebral hemorrhage.