Short-Term Treatment with Empagliflozin Resulted in Dehydration and Cardiac Arrest in an Elderly Patient with Specific Complications: A Case Report and Literature Review

Empagliflozin is a sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitor widely used in the treatment of diabetes mellitus and heart failure. Our case study involved a 68-year-old patient who was admitted to the hospital because of a cerebral infarction. The patient was simultaneously diagnosed with diabetes mel...

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Autores principales: Supakul, Sopak, Nishikawa, Yurika, Teramura, Masanori, Takase, Tetsuro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9227880/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35744078
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medicina58060815
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author Supakul, Sopak
Nishikawa, Yurika
Teramura, Masanori
Takase, Tetsuro
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description Empagliflozin is a sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitor widely used in the treatment of diabetes mellitus and heart failure. Our case study involved a 68-year-old patient who was admitted to the hospital because of a cerebral infarction. The patient was simultaneously diagnosed with diabetes mellitus and heart failure, for which empagliflozin was initiated. However, food and fluid intake were reduced due to poor appetite. In addition to the side effects of empagliflozin, the patient developed severe dehydration and cardiac arrest. Careful assessment of dehydration and preventive water intake is recommended in elderly patients and those with neurological deficits, especially when receiving empagliflozin.
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spelling pubmed-92278802022-06-25 Short-Term Treatment with Empagliflozin Resulted in Dehydration and Cardiac Arrest in an Elderly Patient with Specific Complications: A Case Report and Literature Review Supakul, Sopak Nishikawa, Yurika Teramura, Masanori Takase, Tetsuro Medicina (Kaunas) Case Report Empagliflozin is a sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitor widely used in the treatment of diabetes mellitus and heart failure. Our case study involved a 68-year-old patient who was admitted to the hospital because of a cerebral infarction. The patient was simultaneously diagnosed with diabetes mellitus and heart failure, for which empagliflozin was initiated. However, food and fluid intake were reduced due to poor appetite. In addition to the side effects of empagliflozin, the patient developed severe dehydration and cardiac arrest. Careful assessment of dehydration and preventive water intake is recommended in elderly patients and those with neurological deficits, especially when receiving empagliflozin. MDPI 2022-06-16 /pmc/articles/PMC9227880/ /pubmed/35744078 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medicina58060815 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Supakul, Sopak
Nishikawa, Yurika
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Takase, Tetsuro
Short-Term Treatment with Empagliflozin Resulted in Dehydration and Cardiac Arrest in an Elderly Patient with Specific Complications: A Case Report and Literature Review
title Short-Term Treatment with Empagliflozin Resulted in Dehydration and Cardiac Arrest in an Elderly Patient with Specific Complications: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_full Short-Term Treatment with Empagliflozin Resulted in Dehydration and Cardiac Arrest in an Elderly Patient with Specific Complications: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_fullStr Short-Term Treatment with Empagliflozin Resulted in Dehydration and Cardiac Arrest in an Elderly Patient with Specific Complications: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_full_unstemmed Short-Term Treatment with Empagliflozin Resulted in Dehydration and Cardiac Arrest in an Elderly Patient with Specific Complications: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_short Short-Term Treatment with Empagliflozin Resulted in Dehydration and Cardiac Arrest in an Elderly Patient with Specific Complications: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_sort short-term treatment with empagliflozin resulted in dehydration and cardiac arrest in an elderly patient with specific complications: a case report and literature review
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9227880/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35744078
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medicina58060815
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