title: Transient global amnesia followed by vertebrobasilar ischemia in a case of dolichoectatic basilar artery.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, CHU Timone, Marseille, France.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Milandre
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Donnet
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Rumeau
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Cherif
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Khalil
mesh_terms: D000647:Amnesia / Q000209:etiology*; D001488:Basilar Artery / Q000002:abnormalities*; D002531:Cerebellum / Q000098:blood supply; D006801:Humans; D007238:Infarction / Q000150:complications; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014715:Vertebrobasilar Insufficiency / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis