Case Report: Severe hypernatremia from psychogenic adipsia

Hypernatremia is a common emergency room presentation and carries high mortality. We describe a case of a 56-year-old male patient with who presents with refusal to drink water for several weeks leading to the admission. He was diagnosed with psychogenic adipsia and was treated successfully with flu...

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Autores principales: Manning, Sarah, Shaffie, Rehan, Arora, Shitij
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: F1000Research 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5265699/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28149505
http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.9181.1
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description Hypernatremia is a common emergency room presentation and carries high mortality. We describe a case of a 56-year-old male patient with who presents with refusal to drink water for several weeks leading to the admission. He was diagnosed with psychogenic adipsia and was treated successfully with fluids, mirtazapine and clonazepam.
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spelling pubmed-52656992017-01-31 Case Report: Severe hypernatremia from psychogenic adipsia Manning, Sarah Shaffie, Rehan Arora, Shitij F1000Res Case Report Hypernatremia is a common emergency room presentation and carries high mortality. We describe a case of a 56-year-old male patient with who presents with refusal to drink water for several weeks leading to the admission. He was diagnosed with psychogenic adipsia and was treated successfully with fluids, mirtazapine and clonazepam. F1000Research 2017-01-11 /pmc/articles/PMC5265699/ /pubmed/28149505 http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.9181.1 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Manning S et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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