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dilutional hyponatremia

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hyponatremia /hy·po·na·tre·mia/ (-na-trēm´e-ah) deficiency of sodium in the blood.
depletional hyponatremia  that in which low plasma concentration of sodium is associated with low total body sodium.
dilutional hyponatremia  that in which low plasma concentration of sodium results from loss of sodium from the body with nonosmotic retention of water.

dilutional hyponatremia
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The patient was found to have dilutional hyponatremia after evaluation for submission of a dilute urine specimen for random drug screening.
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