Endocrine Abstracts

Hyponatremia is the electrolyte disorder most commonly encountered in hospitalized patients. The prevalence and characteristics of patients admitted with hyponatremia are analyzed in this study.Description of methods/design: cross sectional study is carried out at the University General Hospital of Valencia, comprising a population of 350,000. 681 of the 30676 patients admitted during the period from January 2014 to December 2015 had hyponatremia include...

Objective: We investigated the clinical usefulness of thyroid blood flow measurement by colour-flow Doppler ultrasonography in predicting relapse of Graves’ disease (GD).Patients and methods: In 30 euthyroid GD patients, (eight males and 23 females), aged 17–68 years (mean 43.8±12.8), after at least 1 year of treatment with anti-thyroid drug (ATD) and just before its withdrawal, we evaluate with colour-flow Doppler ultrasonography the colo...