Deans' stroke musings: Acute amnestic syndrome and ischemic stroke: A case series

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Monday, September 7, 2020

Acute amnestic syndrome and ischemic stroke: A case series

No solution, so you are on your own to solve your amnesia. Good luck with that.

Acute amnestic syndrome and ischemic stroke: A case series

Malik Ghannam, , Hope Ukatu, Mohammed Alkuwaiti, Christopher Streib

First published August 28, 2020, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1212/CPJ.0000000000000928

Full PDF

Citation

Permissions

Make Comment

See Comments

Downloads

Add to Cart ($39)

Abstract

Purpose of Review: Stroke is an uncommon cause of amnesia. We describe in detail three cases of anterograde amnesia and confabulation secondary to acute ischemic stroke and review the available literature.

Recent Findings: In our case series, all three patients presented with anterograde amnesia and two of three co-presented with prominent confabulation. These symptoms were recognized in delayed fashion and no patients received IV tPA. Although stroke infarct topology was variable, all three patients had infarction of the fornix. Long-term follow-up was obtained in two of three patients: both had persistent memory impairment and were no longer functionally independent.

Summary: Acute onset anterograde amnesia and confabulation may uncommonly represent acute ischemic stroke. Delays in this diagnosis typically exclude patients from emergent stroke treatment or timely diagnostic stroke evaluation. Physicians should maintain a high degree of suspicion, especially in patients with comorbid vascular risk factors. Memory impairment secondary to ischemic stroke can produce considerable long-term disability.