{"id":2331,"date":"2015-12-23T15:48:56","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T15:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/neutga\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T20:34:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T20:34:52","slug":"neutga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/neutga\/","title":{"rendered":"Diagnostic Criteria for Transient Global Amnesia (TGA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"99c380e4b4a7b96c35d7ddf7dcb434e8\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- MC 2019- Horizontal -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0127150553352455\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3806776041\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Transient global amnesia (TGA) is a benign, temporary loss of anterograde memory with sparing of immediate recall and remote memories.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><b>Diagnostic Criteria for Transient Global Amnesia (TGA)<\/b><br \/>\nIn order to diagnose TGA the patient must satisfy the following criteria, created by Hodge and Warlow in 1990:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The attack was witnessed and reported.<\/li>\n<li>There was obvious anterograde amnesia during the attack.<\/li>\n<li>There was an absence of clouding of consciousness.<\/li>\n<li>There were no focal neurological signs or deficits during or after the attack.<\/li>\n<li>There were no features of epilepsy.<\/li>\n<li>The attack resolved within 24h.<\/li>\n<li>The patient did not have any recent head injury or active epilepsy.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div>Adapted from Caplan<\/div>\n<ol>\n<li>Attack is witnessed<\/li>\n<li>Dysfunction limited to repetitive queries and amnesia<\/li>\n<li>No other major neurologic signs or symptoms<\/li>\n<li>Memory loss is transient, usually lasting hours to a day<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>References:<\/b><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Arena JE, Rabinstein AA. Transient global amnesia.\u00a0Mayo Clin Proc. 2015 Feb;90(2):264-72.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/25659242\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Harrison M, Williams M. The diagnosis and management of transient global amnesia in the emergency department. Emerg Med J. 2007 Jun;24(6):444-5<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/17513554\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Owen D, Paranandi B, Sivakumar R, Seevaratnam M. Classical diseases revisited: transient global amnesia. Postgraduate Medical Journal. 2007;83(978):236-239.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/17403949\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Hodges JR, Warlow CP. Syndromes of transient amnesia: towards a classification. A study of 153 cases.\u00a0J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 1990 Oct;53(10):834-43.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/2266362\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Ropper AH. Transient Global Amnesia. N Engl J Med. 2023 Feb 16;388(7):635-640. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/36791163\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Created: Dec 23, 2015.<br \/>\nUpdate: Sep 08, 2023.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, this entry is only available in Espa\u00f1ol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[730,729,16,15,14,13,728,727,726,731],"class_list":["post-2331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neurology","tag-agt","tag-amnesia","tag-criteria","tag-criterios","tag-diagnostic","tag-diagnostico","tag-global","tag-tga","tag-transient","tag-transitoria"],"modified_by":"Guillermo Firman","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2331"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10176,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331\/revisions\/10176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}