
Hyponatremia and 40 Years of Controversy
Looking Back and Moving Forward
- 1st Edition - January 1, 2026
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Author: Richard H. Sterns
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 4 1 6 1 0 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 4 1 6 1 1 - 8
Hyponatremia and 40 Years of Controversy: Charting New Frontiers provides an exhaustive examination of the prolonged and contentious debate surrounding the treatment protoc… Read more
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- Provides detailed yet accessible scientific explanations, making complex medical concepts understandable to non-scientific readers, ensuring that all audiences can grasp the core issues underpinning the controversy
- Offers in-depth historical background covering the socio-economic, cultural, and political factors that have influenced and sustained the controversy, allowing readers to understand why this issue continues to persist
- Combines perspectives from multiple disciplines, including medicine, history, sociology, and ethics, and featuring insights from leading experts, offering a comprehensive and authoritative view of the controversy
1. From central pontine myelinolysis (CPM) to osmotic demyelination syndrome (ODS): what’s in a name?
2. What’s rapid correction?
3. Osmotic stress and demyelination: what’s the connection?
4. Hyponatremic Encephalopathy: Age, Sex, Hormones and Oxygen
5. Speed Limits and How to Obey Them
PART TWO: A Grain of Salt Introduction to Part Two: Turning points Role reversal: an expert challenged
6. New Evidence: Rare or just not well done?
7. The Court’s in Session
8. Primum non nocere
PART THREE: A Clinician’s Guide to Hyponatremia Management
9. A toolbox for managing hyponatremia
10. Case studies
11. Nutrition, fluid intake, lifestyle and hyponatremia
12. Beyond the controversy: the future of hyponatremia management
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 1, 2026
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
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Richard H. Sterns
Richard H. Sterns is a nephrologist, a Professor Emeritus at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, a former Chief of Medicine at Rochester General Hospital, and an Editor-in-Chief for Fluid and Electrolytes for UpToDate. Dr. Sterns is a graduate of Stanford University who completed his medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania; internal medicine training at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center and Albert Einstein School of Medicine; and his nephrology fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Sterns introduced the term “Osmotic Demyelination Syndrome” (a serious neurological complication caused by overly rapid correction of hyponatremia) in 1986 and has published extensively on the subject of hyponatremia.