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Hyponatremia is considered to be of acute onset if it develops in less than 48 hours. Patients who develop hyponatremia acutely almost always do so during hospitalization, and often during the postoperative period. Chronic hyponatremia is defined as that developing over a time course longer than 48 hours.
Hyponatremia is an electrolyte disturbance characterized by a sodium concentration in the plasma below 135 mmol/L. At lower levels, overhydration (water intoxication), an urgently dangerous condition, may result. Severe hyponatremia can cause an osmotic transfer of water from the plasma into the brain cells. Most body cells can expand as they take on water, but brain cells are confined in the skull. The following symptoms may therefore begin to be experienced as brain cells take on water: