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Original Article

J Korean Pediatr Soc. 1962;5(4):263-270. Published online December 31, 1962.

Studies on the Urinary Excretion of Sodium and Potassium in the Patients of Epidemic Encephalitis

Byung Ho Lee¹

¹Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, Seoul National University

Abstract

Among the patients with epidemic encephalitis in 1962, 21 patients were observed on the amount of urinary sodium and potassium excretion The Tesults were as follows; 1) As a whole the amounts of urinary excretion of sodium and poassium showed very low value and some cases who had good prognosis showed rapid increase in the urinary sodium excretion, while the cases who had poor prognosis, expired or had sequelae showed no such increase day by day. 2) In the correction of hyponatremia the amounts of urinary sodium revealed increasing tendency while the amounts of urinary potassium showed decreasing tendency. 3) Especially in the comatous patients, the amounts of urinary sodium and potassium revealed remark- ably low value. 4) In acute stage the amounts of urinary sodium revealed tendency of positive balance while the am ounts of urinary potassium showed tendency of negative balance.

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