Urinary Retention and Severe Hyponatremia: An Unusual Presentation of COVID-19
Document Type
Article
Publication Title
European journal of case reports in internal medicine
Abstract
UNLABELLED: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was first reported in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. The disease is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome virus coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). A few published cases have linked COVID-19 and hyponatremia. The mechanism of hyponatremia in these cases is related to the syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion (SIADH). Here we present a unique case of urinary retention and SIADH as unusual presenting features of SARS-CoV-2 infection. LEARNING POINTS: Urine retention could be an unusual presenting symptom of severe hyponatremia of COVID-19.Hyponatremia and SIADH could be unusual presenting features of SARS-CoV-2 infection.Careful correction of hyponatremia related to COVID-19 is necessary to avoid osmotic demyelination syndrome.
First Page
001905
DOI
10.12890/2020_001905
Publication Date
1-1-2020
Recommended Citation
Saleh, Ahmed Osman; Al-Shokri, Shaikha D.; Ahmed, Ashraf Oe; Musa, Ahmed Elmustafa; and Mohamed, Mouhand Fh, "Urinary Retention and Severe Hyponatremia: An Unusual Presentation of COVID-19" (2020). Internal Medicine. 285.
https://scholar.bridgeporthospital.org/internal_medicine/285
Identifier
33083368 (pubmed); PMC7546571 (pmc); 10.12890/2020_001905 (doi); 1905-1-16254-2-10-20200910 (pii)