Hyponatremia in Elderly Patients
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Hospital-based descriptive study of symptomatic hyponatremia in elderly patients.
BACKGROUND Hyponatremia is a common electrolyte disturbance in the hospitalized elderly sick patients. There is no existing record for profiling of symptomatic hyponatremia in elderly Indian subjects. OBJECTIVES To study clinical features and etiology of hyponatremia in elderly hospitalized patients. To classify severity of hyponatremia in hospitalized elderly METHODS All elderly patients a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Internal Medicine
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0918-2918,1349-7235
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.40.851