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ArticleJournal of community hospital internal medicine perspectives2020

How low can you go? Severe hyponatremia with a sodium of 94 mg/dL corrected with proactive strategy.

Manan Shah, Viralkumar Amrutiya, Nikesh Patel, Sophia Kwon, Jeffrey Fein, Abraham Lo

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Article in Journal of community hospital internal medicine perspectives, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Hypertonic Saline for Hyponatremia: Meeting Goals and Avoiding Harm.American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation · 2022
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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors.

Manan ShahDepartment of Internal Medicine, Hackensack Meridian Health Palisades Medical Center, North Bergen, NJ, USA.
Viralkumar AmrutiyaDepartment of Internal Medicine, Hackensack Meridian Health Palisades Medical Center, North Bergen, NJ, USA.
Nikesh PatelDepartment of Internal Medicine, Hackensack Meridian Health Palisades Medical Center, North Bergen, NJ, USA.
Sophia KwonDepartment of Internal Medicine, Hackensack Meridian Health Palisades Medical Center, North Bergen, NJ, USA.
Jeffrey FeinDepartment of Internal Medicine, Hackensack Meridian Health Palisades Medical Center, North Bergen, NJ, USA.
Abraham LoDepartment of Internal Medicine, Hackensack Meridian Health Palisades Medical Center, North Bergen, NJ, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We present a case of severe symptomatic hyponatremia (94 mEq/L) in a male patient who presented with nausea, vomiting, and multiple falls. The patient was found with symptomatic hypo-osmolar hypovolemic hyponatremia secondary to volume loss from vomiting, diuretic use, and consumption of solute-free water. To manage such a severely hyponatremic patient, concomitant 3% hypertonic saline and DDAVP were initiated with successful slow and sustained correction of sodium without complications of osmotic demyelination syndrome.

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desmopressinhypertonic salineHyponatremiaosmotic demyelination syndrome

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PMID33235683
PMCPMC7671735

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