Treatment Preparing for your appointment Diagnosis To diagnose transient global amnesia, your health care provider must first rule out more-serious conditions
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A 57-year-old man treated with statins developed a range of amnestic features that led to concerns he might be suicidal;
By Peter Pressman, MD
Suddenly, new memories no longer register in the victim's mind, a condition known as
Transient global amnesia ( TGA) is a neurological disorder whose key defining characteristic is a temporary but almost total disruption of short-term memory with a
1 Orientation in space and time is impaired while consciousness
TGA should be considered on the differential diagnosis of acute and transitory memory impairment after exclusion of other causes such as metabolic disorders
Most commonly seen in patients older than 50 years, TGA results from the temporary impairment of short-term memory formation
Transient global amnesia (TGA) is a clinical syndrome characterized by the sudden onset of anterograde amnesia (the inability to form new memories) with some degree of retrograde amnesia
Since the relationship of transient global amnesia (TGA) to statin drug use was first noted in 2000, several hundred cases now have been documented
Transient global amnesia: current perspectives David R Spiegel, Justin Smith, Ryan R Wade, Nithya Cherukuru, Aneel Ursani, Yuliya Dobruskina, Taylor Crist, Robert F Busch, Rahim M Dhanani, Nicholas Dreyer Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA, USA Abstract: Transient global amnesia
It affects men slightly more often than women (1 Reference Transient global amnesia is characterized by sudden-onset anterograde and retrograde amnesia
Statins were reported in association with TGA, although less frequently than COVID-19 vaccines, with atorvastatin, simvastatin, and rosuvastatin Transient global amnesia (TGA) is a clinical syndrome characterized by the acute onset of anterograde amnesia (the inability to form new memories) [ 1-3 ]
The affected individual must retain their identity and be able to follow simple directions and recognize familiar objects
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May 4 Finally, a neurologist delivered the diagnosis: transient global amnesia (TGA), an episode of sudden and short-lived forgetting that is most common in people between 50 and 70
Herein, we review current knowledge on the Epidemiology
Anterograde and partial retrograde amnesia lasting less than 24 hours without any other neurological or congestive symptoms 6
Usually, the attacks are preceded by a precipitating event, last up to 24 h and are not associated with other
Patients with this condition are often described - wrongly - as being confused