Severe hyponatremia in acute porphyria. Central pontine myelinolysis as a complication of its treatment
Duhalde, M.; Téllez, R.; Michaud, P.; Sepúlveda, E.
Revista Medica de Chile 118(10): 1129-1134
1990
ISSN/ISBN: 0034-9887 PMID: 2152632 Document Number: 363813
Two patients developed severe hyponatremia attributed to inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion during a crisis of acute porphyria, and were treated with intravenous hypertonic sodium solution. One of them developed clinical and radiological findings of pontine and extrapontine myelinolysis, which may constitute a risk in the treatment of this complication.