Impact of hyponatremia in patients hospitalized in Internal Medicine units: Hyponatremia in Internal Medicine units.

The aim of this study was to analyze the impact and the clinical and evolutionary characteristics of hypotonic hyponatremia in patients hospitalized in Internal Medicine units. Prospective multicenter observational study of patients with hypotonic hyponatremia (<135 mmol/L) in 5 hospitals in southern Spain. Patients were included according to point prevalence studies carried out every 2 weeks between March 2015 and October 2017, by assessing demographic, clinical, analytical, and management data; each patient was subsequently followed up for 12 months, during which time mortality and readmissions were assessed.

Corticodependent and recurrent inflammatory pseudo tumor. Analysis of cases and review.

Inflammatory pseudo tumor (IP) is an infrequent process with benign evolution in most cases whose etiology and pathogenesis are unknown. It usually affects young men and children, in whom the macroscopic lesion can mimic a malignant process, which is ruled out after biopsy. Therefore, the diagnosis of certainty is histological and treatment consists of corticosteroids, leaving resection for cases in which biopsy is not possible or in which it produces local complications.

Syndrome of Inappropriate Antidiuresis Due to Chronic Perforated Diverticulitis With Colovesical Fistula.

A 54-year-old man presented with symptoms of dysuria and cloudy urine, as well as a history of passing stool in urine and repeated urinary tract infections over the past three months. He had previously undergone surgery for diverticulitis with secondary peritonitis 22 years prior. At the time of examination, the patient was in good general condition and euvolemic and had a plasma sodium level of 128 mmol/L and abnormally elevated urinary osmolality.

Consensus document on the management of hyponatraemia of the Acqua Group of the Spanish Society of Endocrinology and Nutrition.

Introduction: Hyponatremia is the most prevalent electrolyte disorder in the outpatient and inpatient settings. Despite this frequency, hyponatremia, including severe hyponatremia, is frequently underestimated and inadequately treated, thus highlighting the need to produce consensus documents and clinical practice guidelines geared towards improving the diagnostic and therapeutic approach to it in a structured fashion.

Material And Methods: Members of the Acqua Group of the Spanish Society of Endocrinology and Nutrition (SEEN) met using a networking methodology over a period of 20 months (between October 2019 and August 2021) with the aim of discussing and developing an updated guideline for the management of hyponatraemia.

Multifocal Abdominal Pyomyositis From Subcutaneous Dissemination in an Immunocompetent Patient.

A 61-year-old woman presented to the emergency ward complaining of low back pain for a month. She had undergone several spinal surgeries and a right radical nephrectomy 30 years before. A few days earlier she was injected with an intramuscular painkiller in her right buttock.

Do Bilateral Pleural Effusions Always Have the Same Cause?

Unlabelled: A 67-year-old man with a history of seropositive rheumatoid arthritis (RA) was admitted to the Internal Medicine ward for bilateral pleural effusion. Two years before this episode, coinciding with an exacerbation of the RA, he was incidentally diagnosed with asymptomatic left pleural effusion compatible with rheumatoid exudate, which was resolved with a tube thoracostomy. Three weeks before admission, the patient developed asthenia, orthopnoea and progressive dyspnoea.