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- Jonathan Graff-Radford, Allison J Clapp, Giuseppe Lanzino, and Alejandro A Rabinstein.
- Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, 200 1st Street SW, Rochester, MN 55905, USA. graffradford.jonathan@mayo.edu
- Neurocrit Care. 2013 Apr 1;18(2):245-7.
BackgroundAcute amnesia can be caused by medication effect, transient global amnesia, ischemia, metabolic abnormalities, and seizures.MethodsCase report.ResultsA 56-year-old woman developed acute amnesia resembling transient global amnesia (TGA) after aneurysm coiling. She was started on abciximab for possible thromboembolic complications related to coiling. Abciximab was discontinued after she developed chest pain. Her chest pain resolved after discontinuing abciximab. She was subsequently found to have small medial temporal lobe strokes on diffusion weighted MRI.ConclusionsIschemia in the posterior circulation should be considered in the differential diagnosis of TGA, especially in situations predisposing to thromboembolism such as coiling.
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