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ea0019p61 | Clinical practice/governance and case reports | SFEBES2009

A case of hypopituitarism presenting as hyponatraemia

Richardson K , Bickerton A , Pramodh S

A 64-year-old lady presented feeling unwell with nausea, vomiting, headaches and dizziness. She was taking sulpiride for schizophrenia and had an 8-year history of hyponatraemia. The hyponatraemia, was associated with mild hyperprolactinaemia, prompting investigation for hypopituitarism twice previously by endocrinologists in a different hospital. Secondary adrenal insufficiency had been excluded on the basis of: cortisol 576 nmol/l at 30 min after 250 mcg synacthen and cortis...