Transient global amnesia
Diagnosis almost certain
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Transient global amnesia (TGA)
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Episodes of memory loss in the last 6 months, in an investigation of clinical diagnosis of dementia.
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The main importance of detection of the lesions in TGA is to exclude other urgent differential diagnoses, such as transient ischemic attack, seizure, and drug-induced amnesia, once it diagnosis won't change the clinical course of this self-resolving disorder or affect treatment planning.
-<p>The main importance of detection of the lesions in TGA is to exclude other urgent differential diagnoses, such as transient ischemic attack, seizure, and drug-induced amnesia, once it diagnosis won't change the clinical course of this self-resolving disorder or affect treatment planning.</p><p> </p>- +<p>The main importance of detection of the lesions in <a title="Transient global amnesia" href="/articles/transient-global-amnesia">TGA</a> is to exclude other urgent differential diagnoses, such as transient ischemic attack, seizure, and drug-induced amnesia, once it diagnosis won't change the clinical course of this self-resolving disorder or affect treatment planning.</p>
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MRI Brain
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MRI demonstrates small punctate hyperintense foci on the lateral edge of the left hippocampal gyrus on Diffusion weighteddiffusion-weighted imaging, with decreased ADC at the same location. There are no other findings.
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Foci on the lateral edge of the left hippocampal gyrus on Diffusion weighteddiffusion-weighted imaging, with decreased ADC at the same location (red arrows).
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Image Annotated image (ADC) ( update )
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