MON-327 THE SALT QUESTION! PREVALENCE OF SALT WASTING NEPHROPATHY IN PRIMARY CARE

Treatment of severe salt-wasting nephropathy.

Aldosterone in cerebral salt wasting.

ALTHOUGH recent studies of patients with cerebral and pulmonary salt wasting have implicated "inappropriate"' anti-diuretic hormone secretion as the basic defect, the norinality of aldosterone responsiveness has not been firmly established.'-' This paper reports a patient with cerebral salt wasting and hyponatremia in whom bal anee studies suggested normal aldosterone response and inappropriate...

Cerebral salt wasting syndrome: review.

Hyponatremia is the most frequent electrolyte disorder in critically neurological patients. Cerebral salt wasting syndrome (CSW) is defined as a renal loss of sodium during intracranial disease leading to hyponatremia and a decrease in extracellular fluid volume. The pathogenesis of this disorder is still not completely understood. Sympathetic responses as well as some natriuretic factors play ...

Hyponatremia during a Severe Pneumococcal Meningitis with Renal Salt Wasting: A Cerebral Salt Wasting Syndrome?

Background: The existence and prevalence of cerebral salt wasting and its differentiation from syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone have been controversial. This controversy stems from overlapping clinical and laboratory findings and an inability to assess the volume status of these patients. Objectives:To present a case of a cerebral salt wasting syndrome secondary to a bacterial men...

Salt-losing nephropathy in hypothyroidism.

A 35-year-old man presented with recurrent lower extremity weakness associated with polyuria later progressing to generalised weakness with difficulty in breathing. The patient was hypotensive and dry, with normal thyroid and chest examination, weak lower extremity and carpopedal spasm. Workup revealed hypokalaemia, hyponatraemia, hypocalcaemia, hypomagnesaemia, hypochloraemia and hypophosphata...