|
|
|||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No two electrolyte disorders engender more controversy or provoke more intense anxiety on the part of medical students, house officers, and practicing physicians than hyponatremia and hypernatremia. These disorders are no longer of interest only to the nephrologist. Rather, the quest to understand these complex perturbations in water metabolism and to treat them optimally requires the joint efforts of neurologists, endocrinologists, physiologists, and mathematicians. Clinical Disturbances of Water Metabolism is thus an ideal forum to bring together representatives of each of these specialties to blend their expertise in elucidating the pathogenesis and clinical consequences of changes in plasma tonicity and
HOME | SUBSCRIBE | SEARCH | CURRENT ISSUE | PAST ISSUES | COLLECTIONS | PRIVACY | TERMS OF USE | HELP | beta.nejm.org Comments and questions? Please contact us. The New England Journal of Medicine is owned, published, and copyrighted © 2009 Massachusetts Medical Society. All rights reserved. |