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Would you start a vaptan or monitor an asymptomatic patient with reset osmostat and an average sodium of 126 meq/L?

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Nephrology · UCLA

No therapy is required if the patient has hyponatremia due to a reset osmostat, since the patient will regulate the serum sodium concentration around this new baseline level. The key question is whether or not the patient actually has a reset osmostat. A patient with hyponatremia due to a reset osmo...

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Nephrology · UCSF Health

It might work unless their thirst threshold is also reset, in which case tolvaptan would cause only polyuria.

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