Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Hyponatremia is common in the emergency room, albeit frequently overlooked. Our objective was to describe the characteristics of hyponatremia in a cohort of emergency room patients, and evaluate how hyponatremia was studied and followed up.Material and methods: We studied all 211 patients under 70 years-of-age who presented/developed non-translocational hyponatremia (serum sodium (SNa) <135 mmol/l) during the first 48 h of their stay at...

Introduction: Hyponatremia is the most frequent electrolyte disorder found in clinical practice, and has been associated with increased morbimortalty. Hyponatremia is even more common among patients receiving parenteral nutricion(PN), a therapy increasingly in use. However, the morbimortality of hyponatremic patients on PN is unknown.Methods: Retrospective study, selecting all patients receiving PN in a teaching hospital from 01/11/11 to 01/06/12. We eva...