Hiponatremia severa en porfiria aguda: mielinolisis pontina central como complicación de su tratamiento / Acute porphyria: central pontine myelinolysis developing during correction of severe hyponatremia

Two patients developed severe hyponatremia attributed to inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion during a crisis of acute porphyria, and were treated with intravenous hypertonic sodium solution. One of them developed clinical and radiological findings of pontine and extrapontine myelinolysis, which may constitute a risk in the treatment of this complication