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Do you have different 24 hour serum sodium correction targets for patients with severe, moderate, and mild hyponatremia?

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Nephrology · UCLA

It is known that overly rapid correction is significantly more likely to cause osmotic demyelination syndrome (ODS) in patients with more severe hyponatremia, particularly when initial serum sodium is ≤105 mmol/L. Since transcellular water movement is mediated by changes in osmolality across the cel...

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