Two attacks of transient global amnesia within a year: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Transient global amnesia is a classical disease. It presents with an abrupt onset of anterograde amnesia. It’s incidence and recurrence rate is low. CASE PRESENTATION: In this case report a 54-year old white male is presented with two attacks of loss of memory within a year. CONCLUSION...

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Autor principal: Schakelaar, Jan H
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cases Network Ltd 2009
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Case report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2769283/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19918573
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-6309
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description INTRODUCTION: Transient global amnesia is a classical disease. It presents with an abrupt onset of anterograde amnesia. It’s incidence and recurrence rate is low. CASE PRESENTATION: In this case report a 54-year old white male is presented with two attacks of loss of memory within a year. CONCLUSION: Recurrent transient global amnesia is rare. Recognition and explaining the good nature of the symptoms to the patient and their families is an important task for the doctor.
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spelling pubmed-27692832009-11-16 Two attacks of transient global amnesia within a year: a case report Schakelaar, Jan H Cases J Case report INTRODUCTION: Transient global amnesia is a classical disease. It presents with an abrupt onset of anterograde amnesia. It’s incidence and recurrence rate is low. CASE PRESENTATION: In this case report a 54-year old white male is presented with two attacks of loss of memory within a year. CONCLUSION: Recurrent transient global amnesia is rare. Recognition and explaining the good nature of the symptoms to the patient and their families is an important task for the doctor. Cases Network Ltd 2009-08-18 /pmc/articles/PMC2769283/ /pubmed/19918573 http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-6309 Text en © 2009 Schakelaar; licensee Cases Network Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Two attacks of transient global amnesia within a year: a case report
title Two attacks of transient global amnesia within a year: a case report
title_full Two attacks of transient global amnesia within a year: a case report
title_fullStr Two attacks of transient global amnesia within a year: a case report
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title_short Two attacks of transient global amnesia within a year: a case report
title_sort two attacks of transient global amnesia within a year: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2769283/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19918573
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-6309
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