Disorders of water-electrolyte metabolism in the elderly

Water and Electrolyte Metabolism II

I have followed the lysosome field since it was proposed as a concept by deDuve and his co-workers in 1955 and find this collection of papers by workers in that field an interesting addition that has many sparkling con-addition, of course, to deDuve, to name a few) but it also has several several shortcomings. For the uninitiated (and there are surprisingly many for whom "lysosome" is a new wor...

[Water-electrolyte disorders in mushroom poisoning].

Disorders of Water Metabolism

Disorders of water balance and serum Na ( S Na ) are very common in hospitalized patients [ 1 ] . In health, water balance and plasma osmolality, and thereby S Na , are tightly regulated by the kidney, which makes minute-by-minute adjustments to the composition of urine in order to maintain a near-constant plasma osmolality. The development of hyponatremia or hypernatremia may therefore re fl e...

Disorders of Water Metabolism

Disorders of body fluids are among the most commonly encountered problems in the practice of clinical medicine. This is in large part because many different disease states can potentially disrupt the finely balanced mechanisms that control the intake and output of water and solute. Since body water is the primary determinant of the osmolality of the extracellular fluid (ECF), disorders of water...

Water and Electrolyte Metabolism in Con - gestive Heart Failure

SINCE 1944 when Warren and Stead' first attributed the fluid retention of chronic congestive heart failure to a specific renal dysfunction, an ever increasing interest has centered upon the kidney in an attempt to elucidate its part in the production of edema. Seven years later, although there has been no general agreement on the mechanism, it is believed by many workers that in heart failure t...