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• TITLE: When neurological symptoms hides a nephrologic pathology and a cardiac abnormality

  AUTHORS: Clotilde Muller, Bernadette Faller, François Sellal, François Chantrel

  KEYWORDS: Edema; Hypercoagulable State; Patent Foramen Ovale; Nephrotic Syndrome; Stroke; Venous Thrombosis

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Internal Medicine, Vol.1 No.1, June 29, 2011

  ABSTRACT: We bring report the case of a young woman who presents with neurological symptoms, and to which the practised investigations led to the discovery in chain of unexpected pathologies. These neurological disorders were revealing of the picture associating a nephrotic syndrome and a patent foramen ovale. This foramen was the major route of a rain of emboles ring peripheral favored by the nephrotic syndrome towards the cerebral hemispheres.