Water intoxication during carbamazepine treatment.
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Water intoxication during carbamazepine treatment.
Carbamazepine has recently been shown to have a vasopressin-like action and, like chlorpropamnide, to be effective in controlling polyuria in patients with diabetes insipidus (Hartman, 1972; Uhlich et al., 1972). In the case reported here carbamazepine, which was being given to a patient suffering from depression and psychogenic polydipsia, induced inappropriate secretion of antidiuretic hormon...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1973
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.3.5878.479