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Amnesia facts of 2019

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Transient Global Amnesia (TGA) is a syndrome of temporary disruption of short-term memory accompanied by repetitive questioning that resolves itself in usually less than 24 hours.

 

2. While the etiology (the cause, set of causes, or manner of causation of a disease or condition) remains unknown, TGA most commonly presents in 60 to 65-year-old females and males at a close to 50-50 split.

 

3. The incidence rate has been estimated at 23.5 to 32 per 100,000 per year.

 

4. The annual recurrence rate is approximately 2.5 to just over 5.0%

 

5. The clinical symptoms of TGA imply that the site of neurologic involvement would be the medial temporal lobe and hippocampus. This area of the brain is involv

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