The diagnosis of hyponatremia involves assessing levels of sodium in the blood. A healthy sodium level is between 135 and 145 mmol/l and a person is considered to be hyponatremic if the level falls to ...

Hyponatremia is a condition that happens when you don’t have enough sodium in your blood. We often try to limit how much salt (sodium) is in the foods we eat, but it’s important to remember that our ...

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 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.

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...