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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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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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author | Pandey, Praveen K Pandey, Divya Andrews, Rebecca |
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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. |
spellingShingle | Emergency Medicine Pandey, Praveen K Pandey, Divya 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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