Ischemic Amnesia
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Ischemic bilateral hippocampal dysfunction during transient global amnesia.
A 60-year-old woman was referred to our clinic for the sudden onset of anterograde and retrograde amnesia. She was alert and communicative and repeatedly asked the same questions with no changes of consciousness or loss of self-awareness. She had no prior history of migraine, epileptic seizures, head injury, or stroke, and no other neurologic symptoms beside headache were present. The amnesic s...
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عنوان ژورنال: Stroke
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0039-2499,1524-4628
DOI: 10.1161/strokeaha.117.017420