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ArticleBMJ case reports2021

Distinguishing cerebral salt wasting syndrome and syndrome of inappropriate ADH in a patient with traumatic brain injury.

Hassan Mohamed, George Shorten

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Article in BMJ case reports, 2021. 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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2 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.

Hassan MohamedDepartment of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care and Pain Management, Cairo University Kasr Alainy Faculty of Medicine, Cairo, Egypt hassan.ahmed7@nhs.net.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5328-6039
George ShortenDepartment of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
Cairo University · EGUniversity College Cork · IE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A previously healthy 48-year-old woman was referred to our intensive care unit (ICU) from a neurosurgical ward due to deterioration of her conscious level. She had a road traffic accident 6 days earlier. On admission to the hospital, a brain CT demonstrated subarachnoid haemorrhage which was considered not amenable to surgical intervention. A second CT brain performed shortly after admission to ICU showed no change in comparison to the initial CT. Serum sodium level on ICU admission was 108 mEq/L; serum and urine osmolalities were 223 mOsm/kg and 438 mOsm/kg, respectively. Her hyponatraemia was initially attributed to syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone. However, a clinical impression of low volume status raised the suspicion of cerebral salt wasting syndrome. She was managed by infusion of hypertonic saline and fluids for 5 days and discharged from ICU after improvement of her conscious level and normalisation of serum sodium.

Indexed as

Brain Injuries, TraumaticHyponatremiaInappropriate ADH SyndromeSubarachnoid HemorrhageFemaleHumansMiddle AgedSaline Solution, HypertonicSaline Solution, Hypertonicadult intensive carefluid electrolyte and acid-base disturbancestrauma CNS /PNS

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PMID33692040
PMCPMC7949363
OpenAlexW3134293529

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