Hyponatremia Associated with Escitalopram

Hyponatremia Associated with Bupropion

Bupropion is widely used for the treatment of depressive disorder and smoking cessation. Hyponatremia, including a syndrome of inappropriate secretion of antidiuretic hormone (SIADH), is not rare complication of treatment with antipsychotic drugs. We report a 60-year-old man who experienced severe hyponatremia after a treatment with bupropion for depressive disorder for the first time in the Ko...

Levetiracetam-associated hyponatremia

Hyponatremia has been associated with several antiepileptic drugs (AEDs), such as carbamazepine, oxcarbazepine, and occasionally with valproate and lamotrigine. 1,2 To date, there is only a report of hyponatremia associated with levetiracetam in a 65-year-old patient predisposed to the development of syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion (SIADH). 3 We recently observed a pati...

Hyponatremia-associated rhabdomyolysis.

BACKGROUND Hyponatremia is the most frequent electrolyte disorder. However, hyponatremia rarely results from excessive water intake, unless the kidney is unable to excrete free water, such as in patients on thiazide diuretics; in addition, hyponatremia is an uncommon cause of rhabdomyolysis. METHODS We present a 51-year-old hypertensive woman on chronic hydrochlorothiazide therapy who develop...

Exercise-associated hyponatremia.

Exercise-Associated Hyponatremia: 2017 Update

Exercise-associated hyponatremia (EAH) was initially described in the 1980s in endurance athletes, and work done since then has conclusively identified that overdrinking beyond thirst and non-osmotic arginine vasopressin release are the most common etiologic factors. In recent years, EAH has been described in a broader variety of athletic events and also has been linked to the development of rh...