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<journal-meta>
<journal-id>1409-0015</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Medicina Legal de Costa Rica]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Med. leg. Costa Rica]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>1409-0015</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Asociación Costarricense de Medicina Forense]]></publisher-name>
</publisher>
</journal-meta>
<article-meta>
<article-id>S1409-00152017000100279</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Alteraciones del sodio como causa de muerte en Patología Forense]]></article-title>
</title-group>
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Garro Donini]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Alessio]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
</contrib-group>
<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Poder Judicial  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Costa Rica</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>03</month>
<year>2017</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>03</month>
<year>2017</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>34</volume>
<numero>1</numero>
<fpage>279</fpage>
<lpage>286</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S1409-00152017000100279&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S1409-00152017000100279&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S1409-00152017000100279&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen Las alteraciones del sodio son un factor primordial o agravante que podrían condicionar o causar la muerte tanto en personas conocidas sanas como que en aquellas que presentan algún tipo de patología ya sea aguda o crónica. Dichas alteraciones en muchas ocasiones podrían pasar desapercibidas, dado su grandísima complejidad de detección, de tratamiento y en ocasiones de manejo clínico. Siendo estos factores que vuelven a dichas alteraciones un eje de la medicina clínica olvidada en muchas ocasiones por parte de los peritos encargados de realizar autopsias tanto clínicas como aquellas en las que priva algún interés de índole médico legal.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract Sodium alterations are a primary or aggravating factor that could cause death in both well-known and wellknown people, as well as those that present some type of pathology, either acute or chronic. These alterations in many occasions could go unnoticed, given their great complexity of detection, treatment and sometimes clinical management. These factors make these alterations an axis of clinical medicine often forgotten by experts in charge of performing clinical autopsies as well as those in which it deprives some interest of a legal medical nature]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Sodio]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[hiponatremia]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[hipernatremia]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[muerte]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[deshidratación]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[mielinolisis pontina]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[hyponatremia]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[hypernatremia]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[death]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[dehydration]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Pontine myelinosis]]></kwd>
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