Research progress on seizures and epilepsy after stroke

Cerebral vascular disease is the most common cause of adult acute symptomatic epilepsy and secondary epilepsy. Whether it is the frst symptom or complication after stroke, poststroke seizure or epilepsy after stroke is the common cause of hospitalization. As the incidence of cerebrovascular disease increased year by year, the incidence of seizure and epilepsy after stroke may increase. Research progress of poststroke epilepsy's epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical characteristics, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis are reviewed as follows, to provide basic information for clinical diagnosis and treatment for clinicians.