Course of SIADH

Type of Disorder Examples
Brain or nervous system
  • Abscesses in the brain
  • Bleeding (hemorrhage) within the layers of tissue covering the brain
  • Encephalitis (inflammation of the brain)
  • Guillain-Barré syndrome
  • Head injury
  • Hypothalamus disorders, including tumors
  • Meningitis
  • Strokes
  • Tumors
Lung
  • Acute respiratory failure
  • Pneumonia
  • Tuberculosis
Cancers
  • Brain cancer
  • Lung cancer
  • Lymphoma
  • Pancreatic cancer
  • Cancer of the small intestine
Other
  • Surgery
  • Undernutrition

*Table from the Merck Manuals On Line Medical Library, www.merck.com accessed 2009-08-04