%0 Journal Article
%T Suicide attempt by clandestine self-induced water intoxication: rapid clinical response averts life-threatening acute cerebral edema
%J American journal of medicine
%D 2020
%A Siegel, Arthur J.
%A Patti, Richard B.
%A Yip, Agustin G.
%V ePub
%N ePub
%P ePub-ePub
%X BACKGROUND: Water intoxication can induce life-threatening hypotonic encephalopathy. If undiagnosed or inadequately treated, cerebral edema can progress to brain death due to uncal herniation. We report herein a patient with refractory depression who was found unresponsive because of clandestine self-induced water intoxication. Emergent infusion of intravenous hypertonic (3%) saline rapidly restored consciousness, leading to a full recovery without complications...<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
%G en
%I Elsevier Publishing
%@ 0002-9343
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amjmed.2020.08.037