Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Admission hyponatremia, frequently detected in patients hospitalized for COVID-19, has been associated with increased mortality. However, although SIADH-induced euvolemic hyponatremia is the single most-common cause of hyponatremia in community-acquired pneumonia, repercussions of admission-hyponatremia volemic classification on COVID-19 hospitalizations have yet to be described. We sought to identify factors contributing to mortality and hospital length-of-stay ...

Introduction Institutional campaigns, and some health care professionals, encourage the elderly to drink large quantities of fluids, regardless of their level of thirst. Furthermore, SIADH-inducing medications can often cause dryness of mouth. Thus, patients when diagnosed with SIADH can have a high fluid intake (FI), drinking in the absence of thirst. However, fluid restriction, considered the first step in therapy of mild/moderate SIADH hyponatremia, h...