Background. A 49-year-old woman presented to hospital with an 18-month history of hyponatremic episodes, nausea, vomiting, anorexia and fatigue. Investigations. Physical examination, laboratory tests ...

HYPONATREMIA has been observed repeatedly in patients with various brain lesions. Observations on a number of patients with cerebral hyponatremia were reported by Peters and his co-workers 1 in 1950.

A consistent recent finding has been the strong association between hyponatremia and fractures. Initially, two case control studies reported the association of mild asymptomatic hyponatremia with bone ...

Hyponatremia is a serum sodium concentration level of less than 135 mEq/L (< 135 mmole/L, SI) for at least 1 day (Kurokawa et al., 1996). A value of less than 120 mEq/L is considered a critical value ...

IN a previous report 1 metabolic studies were presented on 2 patients with bronchogenic carcinoma and normal renal and adrenal function, who were found to have severe hyponatremia with renal sodium ...

Hyperglycemia refers to high blood glucose levels, while hyponatremia refers to low blood sodium levels. While they are different conditions, some people with hyperglycemia might also have ...

Hyponatremia is a condition where plasma sodium level falls to less than 135 mmol/L. SIADH is a condition where the control of ADH secretion is lost and it is secreted independent of the need to ...

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 ...

Hyponatremia occurs when sodium levels in the body are below the typical level. It may develop in people living with cirrhosis, which is when scar tissue develops on the liver and replaces healthy ...

When all other potential causes of hyponatremia have been ruled out ( Table 1), differentiation between CSW and SIADH should occur in the patient with SAH. Hyponatremia alone is not a reliable ...