PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - A Jackson
AU  - G Stewart
AU  - A Wood
AU  - J E Gillespie
TI  - Transient global amnesia and cortical blindness after vertebral angiography: further evidence for the role of arterial spasm.
DP  - 1995 Apr 01
TA  - American Journal of Neuroradiology
PG  - 955--959
VI  - 16
IP  - 4
4099  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/16/4/955.short
4100  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/16/4/955.full
SO  - Am. J. Neuroradiol.1995 Apr 01; 16
AB  - We describe a series of six patients who experienced severe retrograde amnesia (five cases) or cortical blindness (one case) during selective vertebral angiography. All angiograms were obtained with the same nonionic contrast medium. Analysis of the contrast batch demonstrated no abnormalities, but investigation of the angiographic suite revealed a faulty contrast warming cabinet resulting in injection of contrast material above body temperature. The warming cabinet was withdrawn, and the complication has not recurred. We believe that these symptoms reflect ischemia caused by vertebral arterial spasm.