Ann Endocrinol Paris
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Ann Endocrinol Paris · Oct 2007
Case Reports[Cerebral salt wasting syndrome in bacterial meningitis].
Subarachnoid hemorrhage is the most common cause of cerebral salt wasting syndrome. There are few reports of this condition in infectious meningitis. ⋯ The purpose of this report is to alert clinicians to the fact that hyponatremic patients with central nervous system disease do not necessarily have a syndrome of inappropriate secretion of antidiuretic hormone (SIADH), but may have cerebral salt wasting syndrome. By contrast with SIADH, the treatment requires saline administration.