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Do you use tolvaptan for management of hyponatremia related to heart failure given the side effect profile and lack of mortality benefit seen in a previous trial?

The EVEREST Outcome trial (Konstam et al., PMID 17384437)
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In general, I have not found this to be helpful even though the trials showed a small benefit for sodium levels during the hospitalization only (none at longer-term follow-up). The trials did not show mortality benefit as stated in the question stem - nor did they show benefit for other meaningful o...

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