Transient global amnesia: a report of three cases and review of the literature
Tang, K.F.; Yeow, Y.K.; Chee, Y.C.; Tjia, T.L.
Singapore Medical Journal 27(5): 428-431
1986
ISSN/ISBN: 0037-5675 PMID: 3823949 Document Number: 284199
Three patients aged 53 to 59 from each of the three major ethnic groups in Singapore presented with an acute disturbance of memory. They suffered a retrograde amnesia for all events of the past days to weeks and for 6 to 18 hours could not make new memories. As they recovered their retrograde amnesia shrank but the anterograde amnesia was permanent. They have remained well on follow-up and their attacks of transient global amnesia are probably due to transient ischaemia of the mesial temporal regions.