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Efficacy of oral tolvaptan versus 3% hypertonic saline for correction of hyponatraemia in post-operative patients

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Hyponatraemia is frequent in post-operative patients and may be corrected with hypertonic saline (HTS). Oral tolvaptan is used to treat hypervolaemic or euvolaemic hyponatraemia. This study was performed to assess the efficacy of oral tolvaptan in correcting postoperative hypona...

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Autores principales: Tosh, Pulak, Rajan, Sunil, Kadapamannil, Dilesh, Joseph, Nandhini, Kumar, Lakshmi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5752787/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29307906
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ija.IJA_581_17