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ReviewAdvances in kidney disease and health2023

Hyponatremia Demystified: Integrating Physiology to Shape Clinical Practice.

Biruh T Workeneh, Priti Meena, Mirjam Christ-Crain, Helbert Rondon-Berrios

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Review in Advances in kidney disease and health, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
3.0field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Trial
  2. Observational
  3. Hyponatraemia in ageing.Nature reviews. Endocrinology · 2025
    Review
  4. Article
  5. Syndrome of Inappropriate Antidiuresis.Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN · 2025
    Review
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  9. Tea and Toast Syndrome: A Case Report.Gerontology & geriatric medicine
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Biruh T WorkenehSection of Nephrology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX.
Priti MeenaAll India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, India.
Mirjam Christ-CrainDepartments of Endocrinology, Diabetology and Metabolism, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Helbert Rondon-BerriosRenal-Electrolyte Division, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA. Electronic address: rondonberriosh@upmc.edu.
All India Institute of Medical Sciences Bhubaneswar · INThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center · USUniversity Hospital of Basel · CHUniversity of Pittsburgh · US

Funding

Urea for chronic hyponatremia: a pilot studyR21DK122023 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI RONDON BERRIOS, HELBERT, WEISBORD, STEVEN · 2020 to 2021
$430k
NIDDK NIH HHS R21 DK122023
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hyponatremia is one of the most common problems encountered in clinical practice and one of the least-understood because accurate diagnosis and management require some familiarity with water homeostasis physiology, making the topic seemingly complex. The prevalence of hyponatremia depends on the nature of the population studied and the criteria used to define it. Hyponatremia is associated with poor outcomes including increased mortality and morbidity. The pathogenesis of hypotonic hyponatremia involves the accumulation of electrolyte-free water caused by either increased intake and/or decrease in kidney excretion. Plasma osmolality, urine osmolality, and urine sodium can help to differentiate among the different etiologies. Brain adaptation to plasma hypotonicity consisting of solute extrusion to mitigate further water influx into brain cells best explains the clinical manifestations of hyponatremia. Acute hyponatremia has an onset within 48 hours, commonly resulting in severe symptoms, while chronic hyponatremia develops over 48 hours and usually is pauci-symptomatic. However, the latter increases the risk of osmotic demyelination syndrome if hyponatremia is corrected rapidly; therefore, extreme caution must be exercised when correcting plasma sodium. Management strategies depend on the presence of symptoms and the cause of hyponatremia and are discussed in this review.

Indexed as

HyponatremiaAcclimatizationBrainHumansSodiumWaterSodiumWaterArginine vasopressinHyponatremiaOsmotic demyelination syndromePlasma tonicityUrea

Identifiers

PMID36868737
PMCPMC9993811
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