stroke in childern is not so investigated as adult Recurrent stroke is a major cause of morbidity and mortality among stroke survivors. Because the risk of recurrent stroke is highest in the first few months after stroke, the identification of factors associated with early recurrence is of great importance to establish effective treatments for the secondary stroke prevention.1,2 Previous studies have shown that the evidence of early recurrence on MRI is much more frequent than clinical recurrent stroke within the first week3 and up to 1 to 3 months after an index stroke.4,5 Recurrence on MRI, although mostly clinically silent, has been suggested as a potential surrogate marker for clinical recurrent stroke, because these silent lesions were associated with subsequent clinical recurrent ischemic stroke.6 According to the previous studies, patients with acute multiple infarcts at baseline diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) were at an increased risk for early recurren