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KMID : 1155520080030010075
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Anesthesia and Pain Medicine
2008 Volume.3 No. 1 p.75 ~ p.77
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Experience of Transient Global Amnesia after General Anesthesia
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Lim Su-JIn
Choi Yong-Woo
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Abstract
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Transient global amnesia is characterized by a sudden memory loss of recent and/or remote events and transient inability to acquire new knowledge. Although mostly followed by complete recovery within a day, this rare and unexpected event in recovery phase after general anesthesia should be embarrassing and confusing, so we must proceed with prompt differential diagnosis for other organic intracranial pathology including transient ischemic attack and go on close observation. We describe a case of transient global amnesia of a 66-year-old woman after general anesthesia for excision and biopsy of left neck mass.
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KEYWORD
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general anesthesia, recovery period, transient global amnesia
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