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Do you give TNK to patients presenting with transient global amnesia like symptoms within 4.5 hours?

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Do you give TNK to patients presenting with transient global amnesia like symptoms within 4.5 hours?

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Neurology · Stony Brook University Hospital
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This is a very interesting clinical question that does not come up practically very often. There is next to no study data available on the matter, so most of what I will propose here can be classified as an expert take.

I think that the most direct, and clinically relevant way of approaching such a ...

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Neurology · Vanderbilt University Medical Center
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TGA is not a stroke. The NIHSS would be about 2, for which the evidence of benefit would be minimal.

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Neurology · University of Virginia, School of Medicine
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In short, yes-depending on the case.

If a patient had a transient episode of anterograde amnesia, however, at the time of exam they have no difficulty with immediate and delayed recall or forming recent memories (over the last 30 minutes) without any other deficits, then the risks may be more than be...

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