Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Hypoglucemia is one of the most common endocrine symptoms and supposes a challenging in endocrine clinical practise. In most cases, are produced in relation with diabetes (drugs and diet). In other cases, there was an endogenous insulin production which cause the symptoms.Clinical report: A 58-year-old was attended in the Emergency Department with episodes of lightheadedness, diaphoresis, palpitation, tremulousness for month duration. In th...

Introduction: In patients receiving Parenteral Nutritcion (PN), hyponatremia is associated with increased in-hospital mortality. Our objective was to evaluate the influence of volemic classification (hypovolemia, euvolemia or hypervolemia) on in-hospital mortality in patients receiving PN presenting hyponatremia.Methods: Prospective, non-interventional, multicenter study in 19 Spanish hospitals. 543 non-critical patients receiving PN were recruited. Hypo...