title: Inappropriate secretion of antidiuretic hormone in infants with respiratory infections.
abstract: Four infants in whom excessive secretion of antidiuretic hormone was associated with pulmonary infections are reported. Severe hyponatraemia was noted in 3 of them; in the fourth, fluid restriction may have prevented this complication.
mesh_terms: D001990:Bronchiolitis, Viral / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007010:Hyponatremia / Q000209:etiology; D007177:Inappropriate ADH Syndrome / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D011024:Pneumonia, Viral / Q000150:complications*; D012136:Respiratory Syncytial Viruses; D010253:Respirovirus Infections / Q000150:complications*; D014882:Water-Electrolyte Balance