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[Metabolic and water-electrolyte changes as postoperative complications in aneurysms of the anterior communicating
R Urciuoli1, M A Arbinolo, M A Secat
1Istituto di Neurochirurgia, Università degli Studi di Torino.
Minerva Anestesiologica
|April 1, 1992
Abstract:
A study was performed on hydroelectrolytic changes in neurosurgical patients operated for clipping anterior communicating artery aneurysm. The patients were observed during a seven day period in ICU, between the preoperative day and the sixth post-operative day. No statistically significant changes were observed, except for hyponatriemia on the day of surgery. The etiology of this phenomenon is not clear: it could be a change of ADH or "cerebral salt wasting syndrome". A wider number of patients and repeated haematological tests are necessary.