You’ve probably seen advertisements for sports drinks that claim to not only hydrate you but also replenish your electrolytes. In some cases, though, too much fluid can be a bad thing and actually ...

Background: Syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion (SIADH) is a common cause of hyponatremia in hospitalized patients and is often described in patients with small-cell carcinoma of ...

Cerebral salt-wasting syndrome is a term first used incorrectly in the 1950's to describe patients who, in fact, experienced the syndrome of inappropriate ADH secretion. Many authors have subsequently ...

Dear Dr. Roach: My husband had a nonstop coughing incident for a night and day after a feast, which landed him in the emergency room. He was found to have extremely low sodium levels (118-120 mEq/L), ...

In this case, the hyponatremia had existed for a long time and failed to gain proper attention until serious clinical manifestations developed. Her past history of MALT as well as the success of fluid ...