Hypernatremia is when there's too much sodium and not enough water in your blood. Sodium is one of the electrolytes in your body, found mostly in your blood. It's important for many body functions.

Microglia are the brain's immune cells known to play a vital role in maintaining neural function and responding to potential threats. However, when the brain is subjected to hyperosmotic stress—a ...

Hyponatremia and hypernatremia are electrolyte disorders that can be associated with poor outcomes. Hyponatremia is considered mild when the sodium concentration is 130 to 134 mEq per L, moderate when ...

To identify the risk factors contributing to intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) in extremely low birth weight infants during early postnatal life, after appropriate matching for gestational age (GA) ...

Lindner et al. have screened the database of a Viennese intensive care unit (ICU) to determine the prevalence of hypernatremia, its impact on mortality, and whether it affects length of stay.

Rapid correction of severe hypernatremia is safe and appears to prolong survival, according to investigators. In a study of 4265 adults hospitalized with severe hypernatremia (serum sodium 155 mmol/L ...

Diabetes insipidus is a condition that causes excessive urination. It can affect sodium levels and may lead to hypernatremia, a potentially serious condition causing high sodium levels in the blood.

Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Both high and low serum sodium levels are associated with adverse outcomes for hospitalized ...

E.M., a 37-year-old man, was admitted to Wadsworth Hospital because of abdominal swelling, weakness and a long history of heavy ingestion of alcohol. He was icteric and edematous. with . . . Robert M.

A study by researchers from Fujita University reveals that hypernatremia enhances NFAT5 and NO production in microglia and minocycline mitigates this response. The image above is a schematic showing ...