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hypernatremia

[¦hī·pər·nə′trē·mē·ə]

(medicine)

Excessive amounts of sodium in the blood.

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Key Words: central diabetes insipidus, hypernatraemia

Suspicion was now heightened implicating diabetes inspidus as the cause of her profound hypernatraemia.

Central diabetes insipidus: a rare perioperative cause of severe hypernatraemia

The main drawback of all these procedures is high additional sodium delivery due to combined infusion of trisodium citrate and sodium bicarbonate, which may lead to hypernatraemia and metabolic alkalosis.

Hypernatraemia may be a consequence if trisodium citrate is administered and the sodium load is not taken into account (18).

Continuous venovenous haemofiltration using a citrate buffered substitution fluid

Hypo- and hypernatraemia management should follow recommended guidelines; however, where ORT is possible, the process of rehydration usually allows metabolic homeostasis to be re-established.

Management guidelines for acute infective diarrhoea/gastroenteritis in infants

On the fourth day the patient developed significant polyuria (150-450 ml/h) with a persistent hypernatraemia (maximum serum sodium 160 mmol/l).

Late onset nephrogenic diabetes insipidus following cessation of lithium therapy

Impaired level of consciousness was defined as a Glasgow Coma Scale <15, hypernatraemia as uncorrected serum sodium >150 mmol/l, hypokalaemia as serum potassium <3.

Hyperglycemic crisis in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa: high mortality and association of hyperosmolar ketoacidosis with a new diagnosis of diabetes

The authors propose that Peters' collapse was probably due to a combination of hyperthermia-induced fatigue which caused him to stop running; exercise-induced postural hypotension as a result of low peripheral vascular resistance; and combined cerebral effects of hyperthermia, hypertonic hypernatraemia associated with dehydration, and perhaps undiagnosed hypoglycaemia.

Historic marathon collapse

We propose that Peters' collapse was more likely due to a combination of hyperthermia-induced fatigue which caused him to stop running; exercise-associated postural hypotension as a result of a low peripheral vascular resistance immediately he stopped running; and combined cerebral effects of hyperthermia, hypertonic hypernatraemia associated with dehydration, and perhaps undiagnosed hypoglycaemia.