Endocrine Abstracts

A 24-year-old lady was initially presented with vomiting due to gastroenteritis and muscle cramps in 1993. Investigations revealed corrected calcium 1.65 mmol/l (range 2.2–2.6), phosphate 1.21 mmol/l (range 1.4–2.2) with intact Parathyroid hormone (PTH) 11 pmol/l (range 1.3–8.1) and potassium 3.1 mmol/l (range 3.5–5). She was found to have hypertension but no somatic signs. Ellsworth Howard test displayed a blunted response of cAMP and a normal phosphaturic...

Hyponatraemia is the commonest electrolyte abnormality in hospitalised patients. It is often seen in patients with complex medical problems and in the critically ill. We determined the outcome for patients identified to have hyponatraemia over a one month period.Methods: We reviewed all in-patients with severe hyponatraemia, defined as serum sodium <125 mmol/l (135–146) at Hope Hospital during April 2005. Patients were identified retrospectively...