In this ageing world population, stroke neurology has gained its own position with the advancement of technology and intervention. At this juncture, for people outside stroke neurology, a new stroke mimic requires attention i.e stroke recrudescence. It means reappearance of stroke symptoms after recovery from a bad NIH stroke scale initially and it happens in the same area of the body affected mostly within 5 years. In that case it's very important to rule out a fresh stroke which can be predicted by the ABCD2 scoring of the patient along with imaging.
But if you cant find a new lesion don't get panicked, but you can label it a recrudescence which is not at all used by even stroke specialists. The reasons for such a phenomena are mostly infections( UTI/Pneumonia), metabolic( hyponatremia, hyperglycemia) or toxic( benzodiazepines, stress medicines). So knowing this entity is good in one…
