WATER BALANCE AND SURGERY

The control of water and electrolyte balance after surgery.

T H E great majority of patients who This post-operative response affects undergo a surgical operation are able, many of the metabolic processes of the within a very short while, to return to a body, indeed probably more than we are normal intake of food and drink, so that, yet aware of, but . its most important with regard to fluid balance, they present effects are on the handling by the body ...

Water balance and hyponatraemia.

Human Water and Electrolyte Balance

Aquaporins and plant water balance.

The impact of aquaporin function on plant water balance is discussed. The significance of these proteins for root water uptake, water conductance in the xylem, including embolism refilling and the role of plant aquaporins in leaf physiology, is described. Emphasis is placed on certain aspects of water stress reactions and the correlation of aquaporins to abscisic acid as well as on the relation...

164 - Sodium and Water Balance

between the two spaces when water diffuses freely across the membrane. The predominant solute of the extracellular space is sodium. Various disease states may alter water balance and lead to abnormally high or low sodium levels that may result in significant disability or death from either the causative disease, the direct effects of the sodium concentration, or the ill effects of inappropriate...