I have a 95 year old nursing home patient (Jessie) with a serum sodium level of 128. What could be causing this and how should it be treated? Most of the water in the body is in the cells. If water ...

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 ...

New guidelines on the diagnosis, classification, and treatment of true hypotonic hyponatremia have been published online in the European Journal of Endocrinology. The guidelines focus on managing ...

Background A 58-year-old schizophrenic male who had been drinking at least 4–5 l of pure water every day for 30 years was admitted to a hospital with complaints of nausea, fatigue, and irregular, ...

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 ...

Desmopressin acetate 0.1mg, 0.2mg; scored tabs. Desmopressin acetate is a synthetic analogue of the natural hormone arginine vasopressin. Upon binding of desmopressin to V2 receptors in the ...

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 ...