Hyper/Hyponatraemia + SIADH Flashcards
What are the three main types of hyponatraemia?
- Hyponatraemia with hypovolaemia
- Hyponatraemia with euvolaemia
- Hyponatraemia with hypervolaemia
What are extrarenal causes of hyponatraemia with hypovolaemia?
- Vomiting
- Diarrhoea
- Haemorrhage
- Burns
- Pancreatitis
What are renal causes of hyponatraemia with hypovolaemia?
- Osmotic diuresis
- Diuretics
- Adrenocortical insufficiency
- Tubulo-interstitial renal disease
- Unilateral renal artery stenosis
What are causes of hyponatraemia with increased extracellular volume?
- Heart failure
- Liver failure
- Oliguric kidney injury
- Hypoalbuminaemia
- Severe hypothyroidism
- Glucocorticoid deficiency
What are causes of euvolaemic hyponatraemia?
- Vagal neuropathy
- Addison’s Disease
- Hypothyroidism
- SIADH
- Psychogenic polydipsia
- Drugs
What are features of hyponatraemia?
- Anorexia
- Nausea
- Malaise
- Headache
- Irritability
- Confusion
- Weakness
- Decreased GCS/Drowsiness
- Seizures
- Encephalopathic
What is regarded biochemically as mild hyponatraemia?
Na+ = 130-135 mmol/L
What is regarded biochemically as moderate hyponatraemia?
Na+ = 125-130 mmol/L
What is regarded biochemically as profound hyponatraemia?
Na+ = < 125 mmol/L
How would you determine if someone had renal or extrarenal hypovolaemic hyponatraemia?
Urinary Na+ levels
- If > 20 mmol/L = Kidney is cause
- If < 20 mmol/L = Extrarenal
What volume status is SIADH associated with?
Euvolaemia
How would you approach establishing the cause of hyponatraemia (history and investigations)?
- Through history - chronicity, med rec
- Fluid status assessement
- Bloods - U+E’s, Glucose, lipids, Cortisol, TFTs, LFTs, Plasma osmolality
- Urine - Osmolality, Na+, K+
What is the general mechanism behind hypovolaemic hyponatraemia?
Loss of salt in excess of water loss
Why do extrarenal causes of hypovolaemic hyponatraemia cause urine concentration?
Urinary excretion of sodium falls in response to the volume depletion, as does water excretion, leading to concentrated urine containing <10 mmol/L of sodium.
What does a urine Na+ of > 20 mmol/L indicate in someone with hypovolaemic hyponatraemia?
Renal cause
What are signs of hypovolaemia?
- Reduced skin tugor
- Dry mucous membranes
- Tachycardia
- Low BP (esp. postural drop)
- Sunken eyes