Stroke-related restless legs syndrome: epidemiology, clinical characteristics, and pathophysiology.

Stroke-related restless legs syndrome (RLS) is one of stroke-related sleep disorders, which may be due to de novo RLS after stroke onset or an exacerbation of RLS symptoms after incident stroke. To date, the diagnostic rate of stroke-related RLS is low but it has a significant effect on patients' daily life and functional outcome. This review provides an overview of the epidemiology, clinical characteristics, pathophysiology, and impact on functional outcome of stroke-related RLS.

• Publication year

  2022

• Venue

  Sleep Medicine

• Publication date

  2022-02-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1016/j.sleep.2022.02.001PMID 35219214
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