TRANSIENT KORSAKOFFS SYNDROME FOLLOWING INTRAVENTRICULAR HEMORRHAGE

A 42 year-old man with intraventricular haemorrhage developed a transi ent Korsakoffs syndrome. A small arteriovenous malformation was identi fied on the inner side of the left parietal lobe. Cognitive disorders are very frequent after surgery on anterior communicating artery aneur ysms, more rarely when the haemorrhage interest the axial anatomic loc i implicating in the process of amnesic syndromes. This case illustrat es well the possibility of transient Korsakoff's syndrome after pure i ntraventricular haemorrhage.