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Severe symptomatic hyponatremia due to cerebral salt wasting syndrome in a patient with traumatic head injury and Dandy-Walker malformation of the brain.
Cerebral salt wasting (CSW) is an uncommon cause of hyponatremia characterized by extracellular volume depletion, high urine sodium concentration and osmolality, and low serum uric acid concentration in association with central nervous system (CNS) disease. Distinguishing CSW from the syndrome of inappropriate secretion of antidiuretic hormone (SIADH), a much more common form of hyponatremia in this setting, can be challenging because both present with identical laboratory features. However, treatment of CSW and SIADH differs, making a correct diagnosis important. Here we present a case of CSW in a 75-year-old man in whom severe hyponatremia and volume depletion were discovered in the setting of traumatic head injury and Dandy-Walker malformation of the brain, a rare congenital brain malformation. Treatment with intravenous normal saline and later oral salt supplementation and fludrocortisone was successful.
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