Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Pituitary adenomas are considered to be benign tumors that are diagnosed by its sympthoms (secondary to compression or hormonal secretion) or incidentally in an imaging technique performed because of another reason. ‘Silent’ somatotrophinomas are very rare. This type of adenoma is typically large and despite it presents with mild or no acromegalic features it usually develops hormone secretion.A case report: A 29-year-old spanish ...

Introduction: The most common cause of hyponatraemia is the syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone (SIADH). The diagnosis typically requires hyponatraemia in the setting of reduced serum osmolality, inappropriately concentrated urine with normal sodium excretion levels, and the absence of interfering medications, hypothyroidism and adrenal insufficiency. Unless hypertonic saline is indicated for acute onset profound hyponatraemia and/or with severe symptoms, the mainst...