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Acute severe hypothyroidism is not associated with hyponatremia even with increased water intake: a prospective study in thyroid cancer patients

BACKGROUND: Hypothyroidism, commonly induced in preparation for radioiodine treatment of differentiated thyroid cancer, is a text-book cause for hyponatremia. Nausea, stress, and increased fluid intake associated with the treatment are expected to exacerbate hyponatremia. METHODS: We prospectively s...

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Autores principales: Hammami, Muhammad M, Almogbel, Fahad, Hammami, Sumaya, Faifi, Jaber, Alqahtani, Awad, Hashem, Walid
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3735475/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23902827
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6823-13-27