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Management of Severe Hyponatremia: Infusion of Hypertonic Saline and Desmopressin or Infusion of Vasopressin Inhibitors?

Rapid correction of severe hyponatremia carries the risk of osmotic demyelination. Two recently introduced methods of correction of hyponatremia have diametrically opposite effects on aquaresis. Inhibitors of vasopressin V2 receptor (vaptans) lead to the production of dilute urine, whereas infusion...

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Autores principales: Tzamaloukas, Antonios H., Shapiro, Joseph I., Raj, Dominic S., Murata, Glen H., Glew, Robert H., Malhotra, Deepak
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The American Journal of the Medical Sciences 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4206391/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25247759
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MAJ.0000000000000331