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Cerebral salt wasting in a postoperative period.

Janus D, Wojcik M, Dolezal-Oltarzewska K, Kalicka-Kasperczyk A, Poplawska K, Starzyk J.
Case Reports 2014; 35(4): 252-256 PubMed PMID: 25038596 Citation  Keywords:  Adult, Cerebrum:metabolism, Diabetes Insipidus:blood, Diagnosis, Differential, Humans, Hyponatremia:blood, Intraoperative Complications, Postoperative Complications:blood, Postoperative Period, Sodium:blood, Syndrome, Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt:adverse ef.   

: Cerebral salt wasting syndrome (CSW-cerebral salt wasting) was first described in 1950 by Peters. This syndrome can occur in patients who have sustained damage to the central nervous system (e.g. patients with subarachnoid bleeding, bacterial meningitis or after neurosurgery). Patients present with excessive natriuresis and hyponatremic dehydration. Differentiating this syndrome with the syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion (SIADH-syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion), which may occur in the same group of patients, is necessary in order to administer the correct treatment which consists of fluid restriction and sodium replacement in SIADH and fluid and sodium replacement as well as occasional mineralocorticoid therapy in CSW....

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N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide with fractional excretion and clearance of sodium in relation to cardiovascular events after elective cervical spine surgery.

Spatenkova V, Bradac O, Kazda A, Suchomel P.
Journal Article 2011; 32(6): 874-878 PubMed PMID: 22286795 Citation  Keywords:  Adult, Biomarkers:blood, Cardiovascular Diseases:blood, Cervical Vertebrae:surgery, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Natriuretic Peptide, Brain:blood, Peptide Fragments:blood, Postoperative Complications:blood, Prospective Studies, Sodium:metabolism,.   

OBJECTIVES: N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) is increasingly being used as a biomarker of cardiovascular risk. To date neither its cut-off for postoperative period in noncardiac surgery nor whether the cardiovascular risk has any relation to natriuresis has been assessed.

DESIGN: The prospective observational study evaluated postoperative serum levels of NT-proBNP with fractional excretion of sodium (FENa+) and sodium clearance (CNa+) in relation to the occurrence of cardiovascular events in patients after elective cervical spine surgery.

METHODS: In 27 otherwise healthy patients after elective cervical spine surgery we prospectively measured serum NT-proBNP and serum sodium immediately after the operation (day 1) and on day two. We correlated both NT-proBNP with FENa+, CNa+, diuresis and intake of fluids and sodium, which were assessed from the beginning of the operation until day two. We followed the incidence of myocardial infarction, heart failure and cardiac death postoperatively to 1 year.

RESULTS: Immediate postoperative NT-proBNP values were within the reference range (mean 4.53 ± 2.48 pmol/l), but they increased significantly on the second day (mean 23.57 ± 12.27 pmol/l, p<0.001). Significantly elevated CNa+ (0.033 ± 0.014 ml/s, p<0.001), FENa+ (0.018 ± 0.008, p<0.001) and fUNa+ (mean 326.9 ± 125.2 mmol, p<0.01) were found. There was a significant positive correlation between the two values of NT-proBNP (r=0.47, p=0.014), but we did not find any correlation between NT-proBNP and the further measured parameters. None of the patients had any cardiovascular events from operation until 1 year.

CONCLUSIONS: The significant postoperative elevation of NT-proBNP had no relationship with the rise in FENa+, CNa+ or fUNa+ and was not connected with any occurrence of cardiovascular events in patients after elective cervical spine surgery....

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