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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

PRAGUE—Transient hyponatremia may precede development of contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN) in patients undergoing coronary angiography, according to investigators. Sejoong Kim, MD, and collaborators ...

Elderly Covid-19 patients, especially those with co-morbidity and showing signs of disorientation, need to be promptly hospitalised and checked for fall in sodium level. If left unchecked, it can be ...

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 ...

Philip Andrew eloquently explains the problems of referring to circulating plasma volume as “effective,” and we concur with his comments. Our reference to low effective circulating volume in heart ...