Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) related acute stroke causing transient global amnesia.

Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) related acute stroke causing transient global amnesia.

Ramanathan RS; Wachsman A

Journal Of Stroke And Cerebrovascular Diseases

2021

2021-03-14

Transient global amnesia (TGA) presents as an acute anterograde amnesia that generally resolves within 24 h.1 Werner et al. had noted increasing TGA since severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) outbreak in their hospital in Germany and reported 16 patients with TGA between February 1st and May 15th 2020 compared to their 10-year average of 9.72 In our series we noted 2 patients who presented with TGA secondary to acute hippocampal stroke in COVID-19 positive patients.

There is evidence that SARS-CoV-2 causes more thrombotic vascular events like stroke than other coronavirus infections. The reported incidence of stroke in SARS-CoV-2 ranges from 1% to 6%.3

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NEOMED College of Medicine

Department of Internal Medicine

Jan to Aug. list 2021