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Transient global amnesia followed by vertebrobasilar ischemia in a case of dolichoectatic basilar artery
L Milandre1, A Donnet, C Rumeau
1Department of Neurology, CHU Timone, Marseille, France.
Acta Neurologica Belgica
|January 1, 1990
Abstract:
A 59-year-old hypertensive patient presented with transient global amnesia without neurological signs or symptoms. During the following 3 years, he experienced several attacks of vertebrobasilar insufficiency and a cerebellar infarction. CT scan and MRI found a partially thrombosed dolichoectatic basilar artery but no significant lesion within the limbic system. These data suggest transient global amnesia was due to a transient ischemia in the basilar artery distribution.