Spinal transient ischemic attack: Rare and treatable cause of transient weakness with radicular pain

Sat, 28 Mar 2026 13:06:29 +0300

Transient ischemic attack (TIA) of spinal cord (SC) is very rare and characterized by sudden onset of paralysis, sensory loss, back pain. We present a patient with acute painful paraplegia and symptoms resolved within a few hours. We identified 10 patients in literature search. Five of them were male, the mean age of patients was 53.8. Paraparesis/pleji was present in all. Only two patients did...