Exercise-associated hyponatremia masquerading as acute mountain sickness: Are we missing the diagnosis?

Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 383-386

  Ayus, Juan Carlos ^a,c   Moritz, Michael L ^b  

^a Renal Consultants of Houston   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c Renal Consultants of Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SODIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ALTITUDE DISEASE; BRAIN DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFUSION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EDITORIAL; EXERCISE; EXERCISE ASSOCIATED HYPONATREMIA; GAIT DISORDER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPONATREMIA; HYPOXIA; LETHARGY; LUNG EDEMA; NAUSEA; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOM; VOMITING; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ALTITUDE SICKNESS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; EXERCISE; HUMANS; HYPONATREMIA;

EID: 58149191760     PISSN: 1050642X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JSM.0b013e3181883d2d     Document Type: Editorial

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