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Hiccups and Acute Symptomatic Hyponatremia: A Rare Manifestation of COVID-19

We report a rare case of a patient presenting with a very unusual manifestation of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). A 62-year-old male presented to the emergency department (ED) with complaints of headache, nausea, vomiting, and intractable hiccups for two days. Laboratory results showed that he...

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Autores principales: Pandey, Praveen K, Pandey, Divya, Andrews, Rebecca
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9106551/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35573499
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.24090
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description We report a rare case of a patient presenting with a very unusual manifestation of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). A 62-year-old male presented to the emergency department (ED) with complaints of headache, nausea, vomiting, and intractable hiccups for two days. Laboratory results showed that he had profound hyponatremia (Na+: 103 mEq/L) and hypokalemia (K+: 2.3 mEq/L) with a positive RT-PCR for COVID-19. He was treated with an intravenous (IV) bolus of 3% saline solution followed by continuous infusion. The patient was discharged after eight days when his electrolytes returned to normal, and a significant symptomatic relief was achieved.
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spelling pubmed-91065512022-05-14 Hiccups and Acute Symptomatic Hyponatremia: A Rare Manifestation of COVID-19 Pandey, Praveen K Pandey, Divya Andrews, Rebecca Cureus Emergency Medicine We report a rare case of a patient presenting with a very unusual manifestation of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). A 62-year-old male presented to the emergency department (ED) with complaints of headache, nausea, vomiting, and intractable hiccups for two days. Laboratory results showed that he had profound hyponatremia (Na+: 103 mEq/L) and hypokalemia (K+: 2.3 mEq/L) with a positive RT-PCR for COVID-19. He was treated with an intravenous (IV) bolus of 3% saline solution followed by continuous infusion. The patient was discharged after eight days when his electrolytes returned to normal, and a significant symptomatic relief was achieved. Cureus 2022-04-12 /pmc/articles/PMC9106551/ /pubmed/35573499 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.24090 Text en Copyright © 2022, Pandey et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Pandey, Praveen K
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Andrews, Rebecca
Hiccups and Acute Symptomatic Hyponatremia: A Rare Manifestation of COVID-19
title Hiccups and Acute Symptomatic Hyponatremia: A Rare Manifestation of COVID-19
title_full Hiccups and Acute Symptomatic Hyponatremia: A Rare Manifestation of COVID-19
title_fullStr Hiccups and Acute Symptomatic Hyponatremia: A Rare Manifestation of COVID-19
title_full_unstemmed Hiccups and Acute Symptomatic Hyponatremia: A Rare Manifestation of COVID-19
title_short Hiccups and Acute Symptomatic Hyponatremia: A Rare Manifestation of COVID-19
title_sort hiccups and acute symptomatic hyponatremia: a rare manifestation of covid-19
topic Emergency Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9106551/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35573499
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.24090
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