Antidiuretic hormone (ADH) helps regulate the amount of water in your body. It works to control the amount of water your kidneys reabsorb as they filter out waste from your blood. This hormone is also ...

We describe a case of a patient presenting with the syndrome of inappropriate hormone secretion (SIADH) caused by Lyme neuroborreliosis. A 73-year-old female presented to our emergency department with ...

Hyponatremia: An Update on the Management of SIADH Therapeutic options for SIADH have been significantly enhanced with the introduction of specific vasopressin receptor antagonists HOW TO TAKE THE ...

Background: Syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion (SIADH) is a common cause of hyponatremia in hospitalized patients and is often described in patients with small-cell carcinoma of ...

The case description below highlights issues raised in an upcoming article about the use of vasopressin antagonists — including side effects, emerging safety concerns, important gaps in data, and ...

The levels of copeptin in the circulation correlate with those of arginine vasopressin (AVP) Currently available techniques for the measurement of copeptin have advantages over those for AVP in terms ...

To the Editor: In an article entitled "Pulmonary Complications and Water Retention in Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation" Sladen et al. 1 mention that many investigators have studied the effects of ...