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ArticleEuropean journal of case reports in internal medicine2019

Focal Neurological Deficit Secondary to Severe Hyponatraemia Mimicking Stroke.

Ahmad Nawid Latifi, Vanitha Gopal, Sina Raissi

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Article in European journal of case reports in internal medicine, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Ahmad Nawid LatifiDepartment of Internal Medicine, Saint Mary's Hospital, Waterbury, CT, USA.
Vanitha GopalDepartment of Internal Medicine, Saint Mary's Hospital, Waterbury, CT, USA.
Sina RaissiDepartment of Nephrology, Saint Mary's Hospital, Waterbury, CT, USA.

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Abstract

Hyponatraemia is a common electrolyte abnormality seen by internists. Clinical features of hyponatraemia are primarily related to CNS dysfunction, and depend on the severity and acuity of changes in serum sodium concentration. Neurological manifestations of hyponatraemia range from nausea and malaise, with a mild reduction in the serum sodium, to lethargy, decreased level of consciousness, headache, seizures and coma in extreme cases. Focal neurological deficits are very rare in the setting of hyponatraemia. Here, we describe a patient with acute severe symptomatic hyponatraemia presenting with focal neurological deficits that resolved after correction of acute hyponatraemia. LEARNING POINTS: A rare presentation of hyponatraemia is described.Neuroimaging should be performed in patients with focal neurological deficits and hyponatraemia in order to rule out other serious neurological diseases.Correction of severe hyponatraemia can result in resolution of focal neurological deficits.

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focal neurological deficitHyponatraemiaseizure

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PMCPMC6822670

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