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| rdf:type | |
| lifeskim:mentions | |
| pubmed:issue |
2
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| pubmed:dateCreated |
1986-6-17
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| pubmed:abstractText |
Central nervous system symptoms due to hyponatremia is highly dependent on its acuteness and cause. Severe acute hyponatremia (serum sodium less than 125 mEq/l) often causes confusion, lethargy, seizures or frank coma due to brain oedema. If therapy is delayed, hyponatremia carries a high mortality rate, and risk of irreversible brain damage. Hyponatremia should probably be corrected to 125-130 mEq/l at a rate of 1.5-2.0 mEq/l/h. Malnourished alcoholic patients with hyponatremia may represent a special case with possible dangers of central pontine myelinolysis if a very low serum sodium is corrected acutely to normonatremic or hypernatremic levels. Mortality in this subgroup is high whatever the therapy.
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| pubmed:language |
eng
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| pubmed:journal | |
| pubmed:citationSubset |
IM
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| pubmed:status |
MEDLINE
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| pubmed:month |
Feb
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| pubmed:issn |
0001-6314
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| pubmed:author | |
| pubmed:issnType |
Print
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| pubmed:volume |
73
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| pubmed:owner |
NLM
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| pubmed:authorsComplete |
Y
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| pubmed:pagination |
200-2
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| pubmed:dateRevised |
2006-8-16
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| pubmed:meshHeading | |
| pubmed:year |
1986
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| pubmed:articleTitle |
Hyponatremia: cerebral symptoms and role in central pontine myelinolysis.
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| pubmed:publicationType |
Journal Article
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