You’ve probably seen advertisements for sports drinks that claim to not only hydrate you but also replenish your electrolytes. In some cases, though, too much fluid can be a bad thing and actually ...

Syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion (SIADH) is a common complication of small cell lung cancer (SCLC). It can cause many symptoms related to low sodium or other electrolyte ...

Drugs are a common cause of the syndrome of inappropriate secretion of antidiuretic hormone (SIADH) in the elderly. The mechanism of action by which a drug interferes with the normal secretion and ...

Hematopoietic SCT has been an approved treatment for hematological diseases (for example, leukemia, lymphoma and aplastic anemia), certain solid organ tumors, immunodeficiencies, metabolic diseases, ...

HYPONATREMIA has been observed repeatedly in patients with various brain lesions. Observations on a number of patients with cerebral hyponatremia were reported by Peters and his co-workers 1 in 1950.

IN a previous report 1 metabolic studies were presented on 2 patients with bronchogenic carcinoma and normal renal and adrenal function, who were found to have severe hyponatremia with renal sodium ...

We report a rare presentation of varicella-zoster virus (VZV) infection, in which severe abdominal pain associated with inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion (SIADH) preceded the classic ...