Severe hyponatraemia in hyperlipaemic diabetic ketosis.

Severe hyponatraemia in hyperlipaemic diabetic ketosis.

709 The patient was kept warm in bed and the rash gradually faded during the course of a week. The discoloration lightened through red and brown, and on discharge from hospital only slight residual staining remained. There was no evidence of a falling haemoglobin, and after discharge she suffered no further symptoms. The cold agglutinins, however, were still present after a month. When reviewed...

Severe hyponatraemia in hospital inpatients.

A prospective study of severe hyponatraemia in adult hospital inpatients showed that 44 patients had plasma sodium concentrations below 125 mmol(mEq)/1. Eighteen cases (41%) were iatrogenic, caused by diuretic treatment or postoperative administration of intravenous 5% dextrose, or both. Chest infection, a seldom-recognised and ill-understood cause of hyponatraemia, proved more common than carc...

Hormonal Factors of Diabetic Ketosis.

Hyponatraemia and dehydration in severe malaria.

The prevalence and likely cause of hyponatraemia in severe childhood malaria were investigated. One hundred and thirty two children, 47 of whom had cerebral malaria, were prospectively recruited and serial simple indices of fluid and electrolyte balance and renal function monitored during admission. In 55%, hyponatraemia (sodium < 135 mmol/l) was present on admission. Hyponatraemia was pronounc...

Severe hyponatraemia and hypouricaemia in Gitelman's syndrome.

Gitelman’s syndrome (GS) is a variant of classical Bartter’s syndrome (BS) in adults characterized by hypokalaemic metabolic alkalosis, hypocalciuria (daily excretion -2.0 mgukg body weight), hypomagnesaemia (-1.5 mgudl), together with a normal to low blood pressure w1x. In 1996, Simon et al. w2x reported complete linkage between the syndrome and the thiazide-sensitive sodium chloride coporter ...