title: Amaurosis fugax. A unselected material.
abstract: Forty-four unselected patients with amaurosis fugax (AF) have been followed for 4.6 years (mean 2.6). Thirty per cent had atheromatous lesions, 20% had miscellaneous diagnoses (temporal arteritis 5, transitory ocular hypertension 2, glaucomatous iritis 1, benign intracraniel hypertension 1), 50% consisted of young, mainly women, in whom no cause was found. Prior to AF 2 had hemiplegia, 4 TCI, one optic atrophy and suspicion in 3. None died, one developed hemiparesis and one macular degeneration. An individual conservative attitude to AF seems justified in this material.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001766:Blindness / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002340:Carotid Artery Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D004617:Embolism / Q000175:diagnosis; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D013700:Giant Cell Arteritis / Q000175:diagnosis; D006429:Hemiplegia / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D007500:Iritis / Q000175:diagnosis; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009798:Ocular Hypertension / Q000175:diagnosis; D011379:Prognosis; D011559:Pseudotumor Cerebri / Q000175:diagnosis; D013577:Syndrome