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.