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 ...

Upadhyay A, Jaber BL, Madias NE. Incidence and prevalence of hyponatremia. Am J Med 2006;119 (7 Suppl 1):S30-S35. Anderson RJ, Chung HM, Kluge R, Schrier RW. Hyponatremia: a prospective analysis of ...

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 ...

HYPONATREMIA IS COMMON IN BOTH INPATIENTS and outpatients. Medications are often the cause of acute or chronic hyponatremia. Measuring the serum osmolality, urine sodium concentration and urine ...

Patients with ACTH/cortisol deficiency and hyponatremia have inappropriately elevated AVP levels as well as direct renal impairment of urinary dilution. In addition, glucocorticoid replacement ...