Citation

Chaudhary S, Kashani K, Williams AW, El-Zoghby ZM, Albright RC, Qian Q. Iran. J. Kidney. Dis. 2013; 7(2): 156-159.

Affiliation

Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA. qian.qi@mayo.edu.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, Iranian Society of Nephrology)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

23485542

Abstract

Intravenous self-infusion of tap water has never been reported in the literature.  We present a 24-year-old healthy man who self-administered 2.5 L of tap water over 2 hours and developed acute illness including fever, change of mental status, acute hemolysis, low-grade disseminated intravascular coagulation, and acute kidney injury.  

Language: en