Cerebral salt wasting in pediatric critical care; not just a neurosurgical disorder anymore.

CONCLUSION: Cerebral salt-wasting syndrome is increasingly described in the etiology of hyponatremia that is commonly seen in children hospitalized especially at critical care units. Serum sodium, urinary sodium and polyuria should be primarily considered in the diagnosis, and supportive laboratory tests such as uric acid and brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) should not be stipulated. At hospitals providing inpatient care services, clinical and laboratory characteristics of CSWS should be known in detail especially at pediatric critical care units. PMID: 26812288 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Neuroendocrinology Letters - Category: Endocrinology Tags: Neuro Endocrinol Lett Source Type: research