ESPE Abstracts

Background: Hyponatremia is an electrolyte disorder, that may lead to severe complications such as rhabdomyolysis, seizures, coma, and death. Clinicians do take hyponatremia seriously. However sometimes clinicians should be careful in interpreting the low laboratory sodium level as it does not necessarily reflect the actual natremic status especially when the patient is euvolemic and having normal serum osmolality, for which pseudohyponatremia should be consid...

Introduction: More than 1,106,500 worldwide children were living with type1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) in 20171. Researchers concluded that better glycaemic control is associating with lesser complications of this chronic condition. Target HbA1c is recommended to be <48mmol/mol(<6.5%) and <53mmol/mol(<7%) as per NICE and ISPAD respectively2. The glycaemic control represented by HbA1c was worse amongst the British gir...