Post-stroke recrudescence or reemergence of previous stroke-related deficits is still an underrecognized and inadequately characterized phenomenon. In this regard, a recent study evaluated several identifiable triggers, clinical features, and health and demographic risk factors associated with this condition. Post-stroke recrudescence (PSR), the transient worsening of deficits due to a stroke after they have initially resolved, is an underrecognized phenomenon. So far, PSR is believed to occur in the setting of toxic metabolic factors, such as infections and certain drugs.
Yet no studies have attempted to identify the triggers, risk factors, and clinical phenotype of PSR. In a recent crossover cohort and case-control study evaluated 150 patients with a primary or secondary diagnosis of the cerebrovascular disease who met the PSR diagnostic criteria. A control group included patients…
