Darrow Yannet diagram

Darrow Yannet diagram

A Darrow Yannet diagram is a schematic used in physiology to identify how the volumes of extracellular fluid and intracellular fluid alter in response to conditions such as adrenal insufficiency and SIADH.

It was developed in 1935.[1]

References

  1. ^ Darrow D, Yannet H (1935). "The changes in the distribution of body water accompanying increase and decrease in extracellular electrolyte". J Clin Invest 14 (2): 266–75. doi:10.1172/JCI100674. PMC 424678. PMID 16694297. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=424678. 

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