Severe hyponatremia and seizure following a polyethylene glycol-based bowel preparation for colonoscopy [1]

Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 558-559

  Nagler, Jerry ^a   Poppers, David ^a   Turetz, Meredith ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITALOPRAM; LEVOTHYROXINE SODIUM; LORAZEPAM; MACROGOL; MACROGOL 3350;

ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; AGED; CANCER SCREENING; CASE REPORT; COLONOSCOPY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPONATREMIA; INTESTINE PREPARATION; LETTER; MENTAL DISEASE; NAUSEA; PERSEVERATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIDE EFFECT; THIRST; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; VOMITING;

AGED; ANTICONVULSANTS; CATHARTICS; COLONOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPONATREMIA; LORAZEPAM; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; SEIZURES; SODIUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33748253029     PISSN: 01920790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004836-200607000-00017     Document Type: Letter

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