Hyponatremia is caused by water retention (N Engl J Med. 2000;342:1581-1589). Except for patients with renal failure whose inability to eliminate excess water is independent of hormonal controls, ...

To avoid injury from inadvertent overcorrection of hyponatremia, urine output should be carefully monitored in all cases of severe hyponatremia. If an aquaresis emerges, urinary water losses must be ...

Regulation of AVP secretion is extremely sensitive. Under normal conditions, large variations in the rate of AVP release can be effected by plasma osmolality changes as minuscule as 1–2%. 4 In ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Medium or fast sodium correction reduced the risk for death or neurologic complications vs. slow correction. The ...

Dysnatremia is common in critically ill patients, but the prognostic relevance of its duration remains uncertain. This retrospective cohort study used MIMIC-IV data from 2008 to 2022. Of 94,458 ICU ...

Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2007;64(3):253-265. Fluid restriction to <800 mL/day raises serum sodium by only 1-2 meq/L/day, and patient adherence with this treatment is difficult to maintain. In addition, ...

Ure Na box Nephcentric announced the launch of Ure-Na (urea), a new medical food for the management of euvolemic and hypervolemic hyponatremia, including syndrome of inappropriate ADH secretion (SIADH ...

Karen Yeates and associates,1 in their article on the management of hyponatremia, use the terms “serum osmolality” and “tonicity” interchangeably, a common practice. Although there is not a major ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients referred within the first day of admission had a median 8.41-day hospital stay. Patients referred after ...

Although exercise-associated hyponatremia has been reported in several studies, the effect of participation in long-distance triathlon races on plasma sodium levels is unknown. Prior studies have ...

Hyponatremia, defined as a decrease in serum sodium below 136 mmol/L, is a common occurrence in both inpatients and outpatients and can be found in up to 15% of the general hospital populations.1, 2 ...