TRANSIENT RETINAL ISCHEMIC ATTACKS IN THE PRACTICE OF A NEUROLOGIST
Transient ischemic attacks (TIA) are acute attacks of focal or cerebral neurological disorders caused by a violation of cerebral circulation, lasting from several seconds to 24 hours. With transient ischemia in the basin of the internal carotid artery, characteristic visual impairments develop on the side of the lesion due to relative circulatory insufficiency of the retina, shortterm transient lightningfast monocular blindness, amaurosis fugas combined with hemiparesis on the opposite side (opticopyramidal syndrome). Transient retinal ischemic attacks are a fairly common disease, but many issues of its clinical manifestation and diagnosis remain unknown, which affects the quality of treatment. Such patients need urgent examination and treatment, with simultaneous differential diagnosis of TIA with other transient neurological.