Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Hyponatremia is a frequently encountered electrolyte disturbance in clinical practice. The etiology should be searched and revisited properly to be able to guide the appropriate management.Case-report: A 39-years old woman with type 1. diabetes since childhood, after combined pancreas-kidney transplantation with good stable functions of both organs, was admitted to our internal ward for overall fatigue, fever, unspecific abdominal pain with...

Introduction: Metformin is recommended as the first-line pharmacological agent for patients with diabetes mellitus type 2. Its most feared adverse effect is the metformin-associated lactic acidosis (MALA), which appears rarely, but the mortality risk reaches almost 50 percent. This case report describes a story of a severely metformin intoxicated patient with several rare complications and uneven outcome.Case-report: A 74-year-old man was found at home, ...