Extremely Severe Hypernatremia Caused by Wrong Belief in a Patient with Cervical Cancer

A 56-year old female patient who was undergoing follow-up for cervical cancer in our oncology center was presented to the emergency center with anxiety and excessive thirst. The initial serum sodium level of the patient exceeded 200mEq/L, rising up to 238mEq/L during hospitalization. The extremely s...

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Autores principales: Park, Myeong Su, Park, Hyuk Jin, Choi, Hong Sang, Kim, Chang Seong, Bae, Eun Hui, Ma, Seong Kwon, Kim, Soo Wan, Kim, Minah
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society of Electrolyte Metabolism 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7327387/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32655652
http://dx.doi.org/10.5049/EBP.2020.18.1.16
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author Park, Myeong Su
Park, Hyuk Jin
Choi, Hong Sang
Kim, Chang Seong
Bae, Eun Hui
Ma, Seong Kwon
Kim, Soo Wan
Kim, Minah
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description A 56-year old female patient who was undergoing follow-up for cervical cancer in our oncology center was presented to the emergency center with anxiety and excessive thirst. The initial serum sodium level of the patient exceeded 200mEq/L, rising up to 238mEq/L during hospitalization. The extremely severe hypernatremia was caused by patient's wrong belief that bay salt would cure the cancer. The patient was treated with hypotonic solution and finally with appropriate hydration, she was fully recovered without any neurological complications.
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spelling pubmed-73273872020-07-10 Extremely Severe Hypernatremia Caused by Wrong Belief in a Patient with Cervical Cancer Park, Myeong Su Park, Hyuk Jin Choi, Hong Sang Kim, Chang Seong Bae, Eun Hui Ma, Seong Kwon Kim, Soo Wan Kim, Minah Electrolyte Blood Press Case Report A 56-year old female patient who was undergoing follow-up for cervical cancer in our oncology center was presented to the emergency center with anxiety and excessive thirst. The initial serum sodium level of the patient exceeded 200mEq/L, rising up to 238mEq/L during hospitalization. The extremely severe hypernatremia was caused by patient's wrong belief that bay salt would cure the cancer. The patient was treated with hypotonic solution and finally with appropriate hydration, she was fully recovered without any neurological complications. The Korean Society of Electrolyte Metabolism 2020-06 2020-06-18 /pmc/articles/PMC7327387/ /pubmed/32655652 http://dx.doi.org/10.5049/EBP.2020.18.1.16 Text en Copyright © 2020 Korean Society for Electrolyte and Blood Pressure Research http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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