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Volume 330:1910 June 30, 1994 Number 26
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Clinical Disturbances of Water Metabolism

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Edited by Donald W. Seldin and Gerhard Giebisch. 305 pp., illustrated. New York, Raven Press, 1993. $150. ISBN 0-7817-0102-3.

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 . . . [Full Text of this Article]




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