Hyponatremia and extrapontine myelinolysis in a patient with COVID-19: A case report

Muhammad Abd Ur Rehman; Abdulrahman Fadhl Abdulrahman; Aariz Zainab; Yahya Paksoy; Nadir Kharma

doi:10.1002/ccr3.4463

Hyponatremia and extrapontine myelinolysis in a patient with COVID-19: A case report

Clin Case Rep. 2021 Jul 9;9(7):e04463. doi: 10.1002/ccr3.4463. eCollection 2021 Jul.

Authors

Muhammad Abd Ur Rehman¹, Abdulrahman Fadhl Abdulrahman², Aariz Zainab³, Yahya Paksoy³, Nadir Kharma⁴

Affiliations

¹ Emergency Medicine Hamad Medical Corporation Doha Qatar.
² Internal Medicine Hamad Medical Corporation Doha Qatar.
³ Radiology Department Hamad Medical Corporation Doha Qatar.
⁴ Critical Care Medicine Hamad Medical Corporation Doha Qatar.

Abstract

Until we have strong evidence to the contrary, symptomatic hyponatremia should be treated with extra caution in COVID-19 co-infection patients as the latter could be another risk factor for the development of extrapontine myelinolysis.

Keywords: COVID‐19; ODS; extrapontine myelinolysis; hyponatremia.

Publication types

Case Reports