Current management practices for hyponatremia (HN) are incompletely understood. The HN Registry has recorded diagnostic measures, utilization, efficacy, and outcomes of therapy for eu- or hypervolemic HN. To better understand current practices, we analyzed data from 3087 adjudicated adult patients in the registry with serum sodium concentration of 130 mEq/l or less from 225 sites in the United ...

BACKGROUND Hyponatremia (HN) occurs commonly in patients with acute heart failure and confers a worse prognosis. Current HN treatment varies widely, with no consensus. This study recorded treatment practices currently used for patients hospitalized with acute heart failure and HN. METHODS AND RESULTS Data were collected prospectively from 146 US sites on patients hospitalized with acute heart...

Seven strains of Oncorhynchus masou virus (OMV) genomes were analyzed with the restriction endonucleases BamHI, EcoRI, HindIII and SmaI. The restriction patterns of OMV strain DNAs were divided into four groups. Restriction profiles of high passage strains (00-7812, 65th passage, and H-83, 60th passage) were different from those of low passage strains (00-7812, 8th passage, and H-83, 6th passag...

Four infants in whom excessive secretion of antidiuretic hormone was associated with pulmonary infections are reported. Severe hyponatraemia was noted in 3 of them; in the fourth, fluid restriction may have prevented this complication.

Restricting fluid intake has been shown to decrease ad libitum food intake in animals and young adult humans. The purpose of this study was to determine if restricting fluid intake during a meal affects food intake in older adults. In a crossover counterbalanced design, 24 subjects (11 m, 13 f), 61-95 years, received lunch at a congregate meal site. Identical meals were accompanied by a volume ...

PURPOSE We determined the effect of caffeine restriction and fluid manipulation in the treatment of patients with urodynamic stress incontinence and detrusor overactivity. MATERIALS AND METHODS This was a 4-week randomized, prospective, observational crossover study in 110 women with urodynamic stress incontinence (USI) or idiopathic detrusor overactivity (IDO) to determine the effect of caff...

We prospectively studied 244 consecutive patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage who were admitted within 72 hours to the same institution between November 1977 and May 1987 and who were not treated with antifibrinolytics. From November 1977 through December 1982 (the first study period), daily fluid intake was 1.5-2.1 and fluid restriction was applied when hyponatremia developed; antihypertensiv...

Background: This study was carried out to explore whether amnioscopy could help us to management of the uncertain date fetus to differ the prematurity from growth-restriction and assessment of post term pregnancies as well. Notify the meconium staining of amniotic fluid is another aspect of amnioscopy, too. Study Design: This was a descriptive study of 80 pregnant women from 2007 to 2008 at a u...