Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Infants presenting with life threatening hyponatraemia and hyperkalaemia present a diagnostic conundrum that can reflect abnormally low aldosterone production (e.g. congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), renal resistance to aldosterone associated with infected urinary tract malformations or single gene disorders also associated with failure of the kidney to respond to aldosterone (pseudohypoaldosteronism). Although incidence figures for individual c...