Psychiatric Aspects of Hyponatremia – A Clinical Approach
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Clinical aspects of symptomatic hyponatremia
Hyponatremia (HN) is a common condition, with a large number of etiologies and a complicated treatment. Although chronic HN has been shown to be a predictor of poor outcome, sodium-increasing treatments in chronic stable and asymptomatic HN have not proven to increase life expectancy. For symptomatic HN, in contrast, the necessity for urgent treatment has broadly been accepted to avoid the deve...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Psychology & Psychotherapy
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2161-0487
DOI: 10.4172/2161-0487.1000e111