Causes
Some common causes of SIADH include:
- Meningitis
- Head injury
- Subarachnoid hemorrhage
- Cancers
- Lung cancer (especially small-cell lung cancer, as well as other small-cell malignancies of other organs)
- Infections
- Brain abscess
- Pneumonia
- Lung abscess
- Guillain Barre syndrome
- Drugs
- Chlorpropamide
- Clofibrate
- Phenothiazine
- IfosfamideH
- Cyclophosphamide
- Carbamazepine
- Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs, a class of antidepressants)
- Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA, commonly called Ecstasy. SIADH due to taking ecstasy was cited as a factor in the death of Leah Betts)
- Oxytocin
- Vincristine
- Morphine
- Amitriptyline
- Hypothyroidism
- sarcoidosis
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