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The term pseudohyponatremia is often erroneously used for hyponatremia caused by hyperglycemia, which increases the blood osmolality what results in the movement of water from the cells into the blood and therefore in dilutional hyponatremia, which is true hypertonic hypervolemic hyponatremia.
Pseudohyponatremia is a false result of certain older tests (flame-emission spectrophotometry and indirect potentiometry I-ISE) that measure sodium levels in the whole serum (aqueous and nonaqueus phase).