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 ...

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 ...

Two physiologic mechanisms control the release of ADH from the posterior pituitary gland. [5] First, an increase in serum osmolality stimulates osmoreceptors in the hypothalamus, which causes the ...

Upadhyay A, Jaber BL, Madias NE. Incidence and prevalence of hyponatremia. Am J Med 2006;119 (7 Suppl 1):S30-S35. Anderson RJ, Chung HM, Kluge R, Schrier RW. Hyponatremia: a prospective analysis of ...