H. Ito provided a letter to the editor discussing our recently published study on
electrolyte disorders in patients presenting to the emergency department with community-acquired
pneumonia (CAP) [
[1]
]. Above all, H. Ito misses the discussion of heart failure as a differential diagnosis
for pneumonia and criticizes a possible confounding of the association of hyponatremia
with CAP in our study [
[2]
]. The impact of heart failure especially on hyponatremia is very important indeed
and the clinical similarities of pneumonia and heart failure are evident.- Ito H.
The possibility of heart failure in patients with “pneumonia”.
Eur J Intern Med. 2021; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejim.2021.05.012
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References
- Prevalence and impact on outcome of sodium and potassium disorders in patients with community-acquired pneumonia: A retrospective analysis.Eur J Intern Med. 2021; 85: 63-67
- The possibility of heart failure in patients with “pneumonia”.Eur J Intern Med. 2021; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejim.2021.05.012
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Publication history
Published online: July 18, 2021
Accepted:
June 22,
2021
Received in revised form:
June 19,
2021
Received:
June 11,
2021
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