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SUBMITTER: Fuca G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6736887 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fucà Giovanni G Mariani Luigi L Lo Vullo Salvatore S Galli Giulia G Berardi Rossana R Di Nicola Massimo M Vernieri Claudio C Morelli Daniele D Dotti Katia K Fiordoliva Ilaria I Rinaldi Silvia S Gavazzi Cecilia C Pietrantonio Filippo F Platania Marco M de Braud Filippo F
Scientific reports 20190910 1
Previous works linked low sodium concentration with mortality risk in cancer. We aimed at weighing the prognostic impact of hyponatremia in all consecutive patients with metastatic solid tumors admitted in a two-years period at our medical oncology department. Patients were included in two cohorts based on serum sodium concentration on admission. A total of 1025 patients were included, of whom 279 (27.2%) were found to be hyponatremic. The highest prevalence of hyponatremia was observed in bilia ...[more]