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They had a stroke before the age of 40: they tell and warn

2022-06-25T05:42:55.360Z


TESTIMONIALS - In France, it is the leading cause of female mortality. Women, affected at less than 40 years old, testify with sincerity. Supported by doctors, they move the lines. Objective: better care.


November 17, 2018. “Hello, your father called us, what is happening to you?

“Yes, I don’t feel well at all!”


When she hangs up her phone that morning, Margot Turcat senses that something is wrong.

Since she woke up, she has been faint and dizzy.

But the SAMU is slow to come and prefers to send SOS Doctor, who ends up diagnosing a migraine with aura.

"I was young and they didn't take me seriously, my father, a pharmacist, had to insist that they take me to the CHU", analyzes Margot today.

At the hospital, the verdict falls.

The 33-year-old woman has just had a stroke.

The fault of a PFO (permeable foramen ovale), a hole located between the two cardiac atria, which let a blood clot pass and blocked one of his cerebral arteries.

“However, I had no risk factors.

I never thought this could happen to me, even though I

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