osmotic demyelination syndrome

osmotic demyelination syndrome
a form of central pontine myelinolysis that occurs when a patient with chronic hypernatremia has the condition corrected too quickly, so that cells of the central nervous system experience the cerebrospinal fluid as being hypertonic.

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