Difficulties in the diagnostics of chronic hyponatremia based on the case study of a 66-year old female patient during antihypertensive therapy
Winiarska, K.; Taborek, M.; Czerwieńska, B.; Więcek, A.; Adamczak, M.
Polski Merkuriusz Lekarski Organ Polskiego Towarzystwa Lekarskiego 49(292): 303-305
2021
ISSN/ISBN: 1426-9686 PMID: 34464373 Document Number: 18174
Clinical consequences of hyponatremia might be serious. It is often related to the administration of diuretics, especially thiazide and thiazide-like diuretics. It is known that elderly subjects are prone to thiazide induced hyponatremia (TIH). A 66-year old female patient was admitted to our Department. The aim of the admission was to complete a differential diagnosis of chronic hyponatremia. For about two years the patient had suffered from the following symptoms: severe headaches, fatigue, episodic mental confusions, stomachaches, and diarrhea. Before admission to the hospital, the patient was treated with bisoprolol, amlodipine, telmisartan, indapamide, furosemide, acetylsalicylic acid, thiamazole, and zolpidem. The general clinical picture might suggest that the cause of hyponatremia was the indapamide diuretic therapy. However, only moderate hyponatremia, normokalemia, as well as, an increased antidiuretic hormone serum concentration were observed. These findings are not typical for TIH. Despite those findings, natremia improved after the cessation of indapamide therapy. This case report described the atypical presentation of TIH resembling SIADH. TIH diagnosis should be primarily based on the improvement of hyponatremia after the termination of thiazide or thiazide-like diuretic treatment.
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