Elisa Longhitano, Chiara Nardi, Vincenzo Calabrese, Roberta Messina, Giuliana Mazzeo, Emmanuele Venanzi Rullo, Manuela Ceccarelli, Antoine Chatrenet, Patrick Saulnier, Massimo Torreggiani, Giuseppe Nunnari, Giorgina Barbara Piccoli, Domenico Santoro
BACKGROUND: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had a profound impact on the general population and the burden of pre-existing comorbidities has heavily affected the outcome of the infection. Hyponatraemia has been frequently described. Conversely, hypernatraemia has rarely been described in COVID-19. METHODS: The studied cohort encompasses all COVID-19 patients consecutively admitted to the Messina Hospital, Italy, during the first wave of the epidemic...
October 2021: Clinical Kidney Journal