Title : Hyponatremia in hospitalized patients: the potential role of tolvaptan.

Pub. Date : 2011 Aug

PMID : 21881396






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1 Tolvaptan is an orally active, selective V2-receptor antagonist that blocks the effects of arginine vasopressin in the renal collecting duct to promote aquaresis without increasing sodium or potassium excretion; as a result, it increases serum sodium in a controlled manner. Tolvaptan arginine vasopressin Homo sapiens