Transient global amnesia following deliberate self-harm by hanging: Case report and review

A 25-year-old female was hospitalized subsequent to an attempt to hang herself. She was unconscious for a few minutes but responded to initial resuscitative measures. Relevant investigations, including X-ray neck, computed tomography scan brain, and electroencephalogram were normal. Physical examina...

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Autores principales: Prakash, Jyoti, Ali, Tahoora, Chaudhury, Suprakash, Srivastava, Kalpana
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8611530/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34908724
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-6748.328844
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description A 25-year-old female was hospitalized subsequent to an attempt to hang herself. She was unconscious for a few minutes but responded to initial resuscitative measures. Relevant investigations, including X-ray neck, computed tomography scan brain, and electroencephalogram were normal. Physical examination was consistent with attempted hanging. On mental status examination, speech was relevant. Mood was euthymic. Attention was arousable, but concentration was impaired. Orientation to time and recent memory were impaired. Remote memory, insight, and judgment were unimpaired. Serial Mental Status Examination (MSE) revealed improvement in concentration and orientation. Due to sudden onset memory loss of <24 h in duration without other signs of cognitive impairment or concomitant focal neurological symptoms, she was diagnosed as a case of transient global amnesia. The pathophysiology of the condition is briefly reviewed.
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spelling pubmed-86115302021-12-13 Transient global amnesia following deliberate self-harm by hanging: Case report and review Prakash, Jyoti Ali, Tahoora Chaudhury, Suprakash Srivastava, Kalpana Ind Psychiatry J Case Report A 25-year-old female was hospitalized subsequent to an attempt to hang herself. She was unconscious for a few minutes but responded to initial resuscitative measures. Relevant investigations, including X-ray neck, computed tomography scan brain, and electroencephalogram were normal. Physical examination was consistent with attempted hanging. On mental status examination, speech was relevant. Mood was euthymic. Attention was arousable, but concentration was impaired. Orientation to time and recent memory were impaired. Remote memory, insight, and judgment were unimpaired. Serial Mental Status Examination (MSE) revealed improvement in concentration and orientation. Due to sudden onset memory loss of <24 h in duration without other signs of cognitive impairment or concomitant focal neurological symptoms, she was diagnosed as a case of transient global amnesia. The pathophysiology of the condition is briefly reviewed. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021-10 2021-10-22 /pmc/articles/PMC8611530/ /pubmed/34908724 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-6748.328844 Text en Copyright: © 2021 Industrial Psychiatry Journal https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Transient global amnesia following deliberate self-harm by hanging: Case report and review
title Transient global amnesia following deliberate self-harm by hanging: Case report and review
title_full Transient global amnesia following deliberate self-harm by hanging: Case report and review
title_fullStr Transient global amnesia following deliberate self-harm by hanging: Case report and review
title_full_unstemmed Transient global amnesia following deliberate self-harm by hanging: Case report and review
title_short Transient global amnesia following deliberate self-harm by hanging: Case report and review
title_sort transient global amnesia following deliberate self-harm by hanging: case report and review
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8611530/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34908724
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-6748.328844
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