Transient global amnesia: Diffusion-weighted imaging lesions and cerebrovascular disease

Stroke

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2219-2225

  Enzinger, Christian ^a   Thimary, Felix ^a   Kapeller, Peter ^b   Ropele, Stefan ^a   Schmidt, Reinhold ^a   Ebner, Franz ^a   Fazekas, Franz ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b Department of Neurology ^*  (Austria)

Author keywords

Amnestic syndrome; Diffusion weighted imaging; Magnetic resonance imaging; Risk factors; Transient global amnesia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CEREBRAL SMALL VESSEL DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE INTENSIFIER; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; RISK FACTOR; TEMPORAL LOBE; TRANSIENT GLOBAL AMNESIA; WHITE MATTER; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY;

AGED; AMNESIA, TRANSIENT GLOBAL; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX;

EID: 49849093621     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.107.508655     Document Type: Article

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