Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Syndrome of Inappropriate Anti-diuretic Hormone (SIADH) secretion is the most common cause of hyponatremia in cancer patients. About 14% of hyponatremia in medical inpatients is due to underlying tumor-related conditions. We performed an audit to evaluate prevalence of lung malignancy in patients newly diagnosed with SIADH and to assess proportion of patients having radiological evidence of lung cancer through chest x ray and/or CT chest imaging six months after es...