[Osmotic and ion-regulatory responses in chronic diffuse liver pathology].

Patients with chronic hepatitis were found to develop an inadequate di- and natriuretic responses to osmotic agents administered into the gastrointestinal tract. In liver cirrhosis, the intensity of adaptive responses decreases or they completely disappeared. The causes for these abnormalities are impairment of osmoregulatory reflex links and dyscoordination of humoral factors.