Serum sodium predicts mortality 10 times higher in PAH patients
Friday, June 13, 2008 - 10:22
in Health & Medicine
Patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH)—chronically high blood pressure in the blood vessels of the lungs—whose serum sodium levels are low (called hyponatremia, or HN) have a very poor chance of survival and a high rate of right-heart failure (RHF), according to new research from the University of Pennsylvania.