Case report: Primary empty Sella causing secondary adrenal insufficiency and severe yet asymptomatic hyponatremia

A 61‐year‐old man presented with incidental hyponatraemia to 118 mmol/L, to which he was asymptomatic. Diagnostic workup revealed a partially empty sella turcica on magnetic resonance imaging. He had associated secondary adrenal insufficiency but other hormonal axes were relatively unaffected. Treat...

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Autores principales: Lah, Siehoon, Wahab, Almas, Wakil, Ammar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9359028/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35957779
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.6125
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description A 61‐year‐old man presented with incidental hyponatraemia to 118 mmol/L, to which he was asymptomatic. Diagnostic workup revealed a partially empty sella turcica on magnetic resonance imaging. He had associated secondary adrenal insufficiency but other hormonal axes were relatively unaffected. Treatment with cortisol replacement promptly resolved the hyponatraemia.
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spelling pubmed-93590282022-08-10 Case report: Primary empty Sella causing secondary adrenal insufficiency and severe yet asymptomatic hyponatremia Lah, Siehoon Wahab, Almas Wakil, Ammar Clin Case Rep Case Report A 61‐year‐old man presented with incidental hyponatraemia to 118 mmol/L, to which he was asymptomatic. Diagnostic workup revealed a partially empty sella turcica on magnetic resonance imaging. He had associated secondary adrenal insufficiency but other hormonal axes were relatively unaffected. Treatment with cortisol replacement promptly resolved the hyponatraemia. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-08-08 /pmc/articles/PMC9359028/ /pubmed/35957779 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.6125 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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title_full Case report: Primary empty Sella causing secondary adrenal insufficiency and severe yet asymptomatic hyponatremia
title_fullStr Case report: Primary empty Sella causing secondary adrenal insufficiency and severe yet asymptomatic hyponatremia
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title_short Case report: Primary empty Sella causing secondary adrenal insufficiency and severe yet asymptomatic hyponatremia
title_sort case report: primary empty sella causing secondary adrenal insufficiency and severe yet asymptomatic hyponatremia
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9359028/
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