Summary: Human milk is associated with substantial benefits to infants' health and development, especially in premature infants. Some mothers are unable or unwilling to provide breast milk to their infant. The use of donor human milk as an alternative to cow milk in these infants has risen dramatically in the past year. However, there have been recent reports of hyperphosphatemia and hyponatremia associate...

Summary: Hyponatremia is the most common electrolyte derangement occurring in hospitalized patients. It is usually classified as hypovolemic, euvolemic or hypervolemic. The most common aetiology of euvolemic hyponatremia is the syndrome of inappropriate antidiuresis (SIAD). Hypervolemic hyponatremia is common in patients with congestive heart failure (CHF) (10-27%) and liver cirrhosis (up to approximately ...

Summary: Hyponatremia is a frequent cause for presentation to the emergency department (ED). While patients with chronic hyponatremia often exhibit minor symptoms, acute development of hyponatremia can lead to global cerebral edema, transtentorial herniation and death. The time course of hyponatremia development is usually not known to the treating physician at presentation. Hence, type and extent of thera...

Summary: Subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is a rare and serious form of stroke, mainly linked to the rupture of an intracranial aneurysm responsible for bleeding into the meningeal spaces. The main late serious complication is delayed cerebral ischemia (DCI), resulting in the appearance of new neurological deficits. Prevention of ICR involves in particular maintaining euvolemia, and early treatment of hyponat...

Summary: ICU patients with severe hyponatremia and a high risk of rapid SNa overcorrection.

Summary: In this study, the possible role of serum sodium concentration and its changes on bone markers in hospitalized, hyponatremic patients is determined. Therefore, it is investigated whether in hospitalized, hyponatremic patients the level of carboxy-terminal collagen crosslinks (CTX) is modified by changes in plasma sodium concentration, independently from the aetiology of hyponatremia.

Summary: The objective of this study is to determine if early high volume intravenous fluid administration (hyperhydration) may be effective in mitigating or preventing complications of shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) infection in children and adolescents when compared with traditional approaches (conservative fluid management).

Summary: To assess quantitatively the evolution over time of electrolyte-free water clearance and electrolyte mass balance in patients with non-hypervolemic hypotonic hyponatremia

Summary: Advanced cirrhosis with complications is a serious problem imposing a heavy financial burden on health care system. Moreover, ascites is associated with increase in mortality rates among cirrhotic patients. Ascites pathogenesis is multifactorial including: portal hypertension; splanchnic and peripheral arterial vasodilation; and neurohumoral activation. Current management strategies include dietar...

Summary: Thiazides and thiazide-like diuretics are one of the five major classes of antihypertensive drugs. This study is to investigate whether urinary PGE2 concentration at baseline (prior to thiazide initiation) is associated with the development of TIH within the first four weeks of treatment.

Summary: The encephalitis mediated by antibodies against Leucine-rich, glioma inactivated 1 protein (anti-LGI1 encephalitis) predominantly affects men (M:F, 6:4) and mostly older than 60 years. The disease has two distinct clinical phases: The acute phase in which the majority of patients develop severe short-term memory deficits (unable to remember events or experiences that occurred a few minutes earlier...

Summary: The present study is being designed to study the impact and predictive nature of perioperative hyponatremia on post operative outcomes in patients undergoing Major HPB surgeries for cancers. Major hepatobiliary-pancreatic surgeries will be defined as follows- * Pancreaticoduodenectomy, * Hemihepatectomy or greater with or without caudate lobectomy * Extrahepatic bile duct resection * Extended chol...