Hyponatremia prolongs hospital stay and hypernatremia better predicts mortality than hyponatremia in hospitalized patients with community-acquired pneumonia.

Conclusions: In hospitalized patients with CAP, baseline hyponatremia prolongs hospital stay while hypernatremia signals a worse outcome both in the short term and long term.
PMID: 32050865 [PubMed - in process]

Source: Tuberkuloz ve Toraks - November 30, 2019 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Tokgöz Akyil F, Akyil M, Çoban Ağca M, Güngör A, Ozantürk E, Söğüt G, Alparslan Bekir S, Topbaş A, Türker H, Sevim T Tags: Tuberk Toraks Source Type: research