{
  "abstract": "Transient positive motor symptoms associated with carotid artery atherosclerosis or thrombosis were recognised by Charles Miller Fisher as early as 1962, who reported ‘the affected parts … trembling, shaking, drawing up, or moving irregularly’. He noted that these episodes never generalised and were also seen in patients with basilar artery lesions remote from the cortex, so he considered these episodes ‘not really convulsive’ or epileptic.1 Cases of ‘focal seizures’ accompanying attacks of transient paralysis and episodes of sudden jerking of the right leg in patients with carotid artery disease had previously been described in 1937 by Egas Moniz, a pioneer of carotid angiography, and in 1944 by Krayenbühl and Weber. 2 3 The ‘limb shaking transient ischaemic attack’ was so named in 1985 by Baquis and colleagues, who described eight patients with ‘brief, involuntary, coarse, irregular, wavering … or trembling … of the arm-hand or arm-hand and leg’, all of whom had severe carotid atheroma contralateral to the side of symptoms, and half of whom had bilateral carotid disease. 4",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Stroke Research Centre, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, England, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Jonathan G Best"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Stroke Research Centre, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, England, UK"
      ],
      "name": "David Werring"
    }
  ],
  "title": "Limb-shaking transient ischaemic attacks: a diagnostic border zone",
  "uid": "2b8fed38-7669-5f29-9cc6-ee7c31dfae69"
}