What is your approach to managing concurrent severe SIADH and large-volume malignant ascites when aggressive volume removal appears to exacerbate both symptoms and hyponatremia?
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Hospital Medicine · University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Center
A challenging situation. I would approach it in a few steps:
- Ensure adequate solute intake since solute load determines free water clearance in SIADH. Loss of solute from repeated large-volume paracenteses can add a component of hypovolemic hyponatremia, and people with cancer and large ascites tend...