
Chapter Nine: Regulation of Plasma Osmolality
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Hyponatremia and Hypoasmalality - What's the Difference?
There's a super important little segment that I can say we're done. It says, and understanding of the factors that influence the clearance of water has important clinical implications in patients with hyponatremia and hypoasmalality. Since the capacity for water excretion is normally so great, water retention will occur only if there's a defect in water excretion or rarely if the amount of water ingested exceeds extra dory capacity. Diminished water excretion requires that one or both of the steps described above are impaired. These disorders along with primary palatopsia constitute the entire differential diagnosis of true hypon atremia.
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