Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Hyponatremia is common in the emergency room, albeit frequently overlooked. Our objective was to describe the characteristics of hyponatremia in a cohort of emergency room patients, and evaluate how hyponatremia was studied and followed up.Material and methods: We studied all 211 patients under 70 years-of-age who presented/developed non-translocational hyponatremia (serum sodium (SNa) <135 mmol/l) during the first 48 h of their stay at...