PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Concetta Catalano AU - Sidy Seck AU - Giuseppe Enia TI - Severe hyponatraemia during sepsis and marijuana addiction AID - 10.1136/bcr.01.2011.3755 DP - 2011 Jan 01 TA - BMJ Case Reports PG - bcr0120113755 VI - 2011 4099 - http://casereports.bmj.com/content/2011/bcr.01.2011.3755.short 4100 - http://casereports.bmj.com/content/2011/bcr.01.2011.3755.full AB - The authors report a 29-year-old kidney transplant patient who presented, four episodes of severe hyponatraemia associated with sepsis from 2006 to 2010. He was a long-term user of marijuana. The association between severe recurrent hyponatraemia during sepsis and marijuana addiction might not be casual, since experimental data show that vasopressin release induced by sepsis is modulated by the endocannabinoid system.