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NDT Plus Advance Access published online on July 18, 2008
NDT Plus, doi:10.1093/ndtplus/sfn104
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Acute renal failure and multiple sites of ischaemia: what is the unifying diagnosis?

Kirsty Le Doaré, Seyed Ameli-Renani, Debasish Banerjee, Stephen J. D. Brecker and John B. Eastwood

Departments of Renal medicine and Transplantation and Cardiology, St George's Healthcare NHS Trust, Blackshaw Road, London SW17 0QT, UK

Correspondence: John B. Eastwood, Department of Renal Medicine and Transplantation, St George's Healthcare NHS Trust, Blackshaw Road, London SW17 0QT, UK. Tel: +44-20-8672-1255; Fax: 020 8725 5036; E-mail: jbeastwo@sgul.ac.uk

Key Words: acute renal failure • patent foramen ovale • renal artery embolism

Received for publication April 28, 2008. Accepted for publication June 25, 2008.

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A 67-year-old man presented to the Accident and Emergency department in September 2004 with cough and sudden shortness of breath. In 2002, he had suffered a left occipital infarct that presented as a transient ischaemic attack. In 2003, he sustained bilateral cerebellar infarcts that left him with residual tremor and ataxia (Figure 1). He took regular aspirin, . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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