2. Objective
• Understand Physiology of ADH in water
metabolism
• Explain the Pathophysiology of SIADH & DI
• Mention causes of SIADH & DI
• Be able to diagnose & manage SIADH & DI
• Know the natural course of SIADH & DI
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6. Regulation of Sodium
and water excretion
Regulated independently:
sodium by aldosterone and
ANP; and
water by ADH.
Regulation of urine
volume
• Normally by ADH in
response to changes in
water intake.
• How about in SIADH?
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8. Five patterns of ADH release in SIADH
Type A: ADH unresponsive to osmotic
deviations.
Type B (a "reset osmostat“): abnormally low
osmotic threshold for ADH release but normal
osmoregulation.
Type C: ADH is persistently in the physiologic
range regardless of plasma osmolality.
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9. Type D (NEPHROGENIC SIADH) : normal
osmoregulation but concentrated urine.
Type E: altered baroreceptor mediated release
of ADH despite normovolemia.
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10. SIADH - causes
Intracranial – infection, stroke, hemorrhage, tumor, very
common in SAH population (69%)
Intrathoracic – malignancy, abscess, effusion, PTX, chest
wall deformity
Drugs – vasopressin, DDAVP, oxytocin, analgesics,
antidepressants, amiodarone, antipsychotics, sulfonylureas,
carbamazepine, cyclophosphamide
Extracranial tumors – small-cell lung CA, pancreatic CA
HIV/AIDS
Hereditary – “gain-of-function” V2 receptor mutation
Major surgery ****
Idiopathic
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11. Presentation
Mild or gradual hyponatremia
• anorexia,
• Nausea,
• headache,
• difficulty concentrating,
• irritability,
• dysgeusia and
• muscle weakness.
Severe hyponatremia or a rapid
drop (> 0.5 mEq/hr)
• can cause neuromuscular
excitability,
cerebral edema, muscle
twitching and cramps,
• vomiting
• confusion,
• seizures,
• Respiratory arrest and
• neurologic deficit,
• coma or death.
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13. Treatment for SIADH
• Rx of hyponatremia depends on :
1. Severity
2. Duration
3. Signs and symptoms
4. Volume status
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14. Aggressive Rx protocol.
1. severe hyponatremia + either
acute /severe symptoms
Rx:
ICU
3% saline: (how?) and
Lasix 20 m g IV q d (how?)
goal: raise [Na+] by 1–2 m Eq/L/hr
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15. Estimated rise in Na+
Fluid restriction
recommendation
The Furst formula
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16. II. Intermediate Rx protocol.
1. symptomatic non severe hyponatremia
2. severe chronic hyponatremia plus
mild -moderate symptoms
Rx:
0.9% NS infusion + Lasix 20 m g IV q d
conivaptan for refractory cases
goal: raise [Na+] by 0.5– 1m Eq/L/hr.
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17. III. Routine treatment protocol and
maintenance therapy.
1. asymptomatic non severe hyponatremia or
2. asymptomatic chronic severe hyponatremia
Rx:
a) fluid restriction: dietary salt and protein
encouraged.
C/I: hyponatremia in SAH
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18. b) for refractory cases
• Demeclocycline & conivaptan
• Furosemide 20 mg po bid.
• Urea
• lithium : not recommended
Treat the cause of SIADH
Mgt of SIADH in SAH
Prognosis of SIADH : most transient
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25. Causes
SAH…more common cause (7%)
CNS infections
Stroke
Head injury
CNS tumors
CNS surgery – usually within the first 10 days
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26. Diagnosis
• Evidence of volume depletion
• Increased urine output
Laboratory Findings
Na < 135 mEq/L
Low Posm
Uosm > 300 mOsm/kg
UNa > 40 mEq/L
High BUN
Increased Cr
Low uric acid
Increased albumin
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27. Rx
• Treat with volume repletion
– 0.9% NaCl
– 3% NaCl
– Fludrocortisone
– salt tablets
• Prognosis: most resolve within 3-4 weeks.
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28. Diabetes insipidus (DI)
• is a disorder of water homeostasis xcrized by:
polyuria (>3L or >3ml/kg/hr) &
<300mosm/kg of dilute urine and
polydipsia due to the deficiency of ADH or
resistance to its receptors.
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29. Epidemiology
• DI is the most common (10–30%)
complication after pituitary surgery.
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30. Types of DI
• Central DI: most common
• Nephrogenic DI
• Gestational DI: placental cysteine
aminopeptidase
• Dipsogenic DI: no effective rx todate.
• Adipsic DI: Challenging to manage
Dehydration is uncommon in most di except in
Adipsic .
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36. An intact thirst mechanism and are
able to drink
• free water po
• DDAVP: for how long?
• what if normal serum sodium & iv
maintenance fluid therapy needed?
• serum sodium at least every 24 h
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37. Uconsciousness or unable to take po
Assess volume status.
volume depleted: restore with 0.9% NS
Deficit Free hypotonic fluid if euvolemic.
Move to oral or NGT water as quickly as is
clinically safe.
IV or IM 1–2 μg DDAVP
Monitor serum Na+ (every 4h;at least every 12 h), K+ &
RFT.
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38. Rx of Nephrogenic DI
• Rx underlying pathology
• Prostaglandin inhibitors
• Thiazide diuretics
• drugs that increase ADH release or enhance
ADH effect on the kidney such as
chlorpropamide, carbamazepine
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40. Natural history of traumatic (surgical)
DI
Most recover completely (50% of in 1 week and
80% in 3 months).
• long term DI only in 2–7% (most subtle but
should be recognized and managed).
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41. References
• Greenburg neurosurgical book 8th edition
• Fluid, Electrolyte and Acid-Base Disorders
2018
• Medscape 2019
• Up-to-date 2018
• Journal of endocrinology 2018
• Journal of neurology 2018
• Journal of neurosurgery 2018
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ADH acting at V1a and V1b receptors primarily cause vasoconstriction and adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) release, respectively.
Plasma & urine osmolality is inversely related.
with chronic SIADH, sodium loss is more prominent than water retention [3]. Since potassium is as osmotically active as sodium, the loss of potassium contributes to the reductions in plasma osmolality and sodium concentration.
The lost potassium is derived from the cells and probably represents part of the cell's volume regulatory response [3]. Cells that increase in size due to water entry in hyponatremia lose potassium and other solutes in an attempt to restore cell volume.
If further testing is required, the follow ing are options, but are rarely recomm ended:1. m easure serum or urinary levels of ADH. Rarely indicated since urine osm olality > 100 m Osm /kgis usually su cient to indicate excessive ADH.1 ADH is norm ally undetectable in etiologies ofhyponatrem ia other than SIADH2. water-load test: considered to be the definitive test.11 The patient is asked to consum e a waterload of 20 m l/kg up to 1500 m l. In the absence of adrenal or renal insu ciency, the failure toexcrete 65% of the water load in 4 hrs or 80% in 5 hrs indicates SIAD.CONTRAINDICATIONS: this test is dangerous if the starting serum [Na+] is ≤ 124 m Eq/L or ifth e patient has sym ptom s of hyponatrem ia
Increasing solute excretion by giving salt or urea will increase the urine volume and tend to raise the serum sodium.
There are three components to the treatment of hyponatremia in SIADH:
●Treatment of the underlying disease, if possible
●Initial therapy to raise the serum sodium
●Prolonged therapy in patients with persistent SIADH
If the serum sodium concentration is to be elevated, the electrolyte concentration of the fluid given must exceed the electrolyte concentration of the urine, not simply that of the plasma [5].
The Adrogué–Madias formula help estimate the expected increase in natremia (mmol/L) (after the administration of 1000mL of infusate)=(Infused sodium [mmol/L]−serum sodium [mmol/L])/Total body water (L)+1.
The Furst formula: (Na+u+K+u/Na+p) is helpful for taking decisions in mild to moderate cases because it makes it possible to predict the effectiveness of WR: if the result of the formula is >1, the patient is not excreting free water by the renal route, and is unlikely to improve with WR.35
Oral salt tablets — The principles described in the above section on intravenous saline also apply to oral salt intake. Suppose the same 60 kg woman with a serum sodium of 120 mEq/L and total body water of approximately 30 L takes in 9 g of salt (154 mEq each of sodium and chloride) in tablet form. All 154 mEq will be excreted since sodium handling is normal, which will increase the urine output by 500 mL if the urine cation concentration (ie, urine [Na] + urine [K]) is 308 mEq/L and by approximately 1000 mL if the urine cation concentration is 154 mEq/L.
Maintenance therapy — Unless the SIADH is reversible (eg, postoperative or due to a drug that can be discontinued), effective therapy of symptomatic hyponatremia must be followed by maintenance therapy to prevent a subsequent reduction in serum sodium and possible symptom recurrence. The goal serum sodium is discussed below. (See 'Asymptomatic hyponatremia' below.)
One or more of the above therapeutic modalities may be required. The usual sequence of maintenance therapy is as follows:
●Fluid restriction – The suggested goal fluid intake in hyponatremic patients with SIADH is less than 800 mL/day [4]. An important exception is patients with a recent subarachnoid hemorrhage in whom fluid restriction can be deleterious. (See 'Fluid restriction' above and 'Subarachnoid hemorrhage' above.)
●Oral salt – In patients with SIADH, administering oral salt will increase the urine output; the usual initial dose is 3 g or one-half teaspoon three times daily, resulting in a total dose of 9 g per day. Since sodium handling is normal and the urine osmolality is relatively fixed in SIADH, increasing oral salt intake will, in a dose-dependent fashion, increase the urine volume. (See 'Oral salt tablets' above.)
●Oral urea – In patients with SIADH who can tolerate its bitter taste, administering oral urea will increase urine output; the usual dose is 15 to 30 g per day. Increasing oral urea will, in a dose-dependent fashion, increase the urine volume. In the calculations described above, the intake of 15 g of urea would be expected to increase the urine output by approximately 500 mL if the urine osmolality is 500 mosmol/kg and by 1000 mL at a urine osmolality of 250 mosmol/kg.
●Reduce the urine osmolality – In patients with more severe SIADH (urine osmolality more than twice the plasma osmolality), the efficacy of both fluid restriction and increased salt intake will be reduced (see 'Intravenous hypertonic saline' above). If further therapy is necessary, the next step is to increase urinary water excretion by impairing the mechanism of urinary concentration. This can be achieved by loop diuretic therapy (eg, furosemide 20 mg orally twice a day). Loop diuretic therapy can produce hypokalemia and hypovolemia since the diuretic response is higher in patients with SIADH who usually have normal or near-normal renal function and are not sodium avid. (See 'Salt plus a loop diuretic' above.)
For the reasons described above, we do not use tolvaptan, demeclocycline, or lithium for maintenance therapy in patients with asymptomatic hyponatremia. (See 'Limitations to use of tolvaptan' above and 'Demeclocycline or lithium' above.)
Thus, hyponatremic patients with SAH should be treated with hypertonic (3 percent) saline to both preserve cerebral perfusion and prevent complications from hyponatremia-induced brain swelling. One proposed regimen is an initial infusion rate of 20 mL/h with subsequent dosing being dependent upon serial measurements of serum sodium at six-hour intervals [10]. Fluid therapy in normonatremic patients with SAH is discussed elsewhere.
Csw is a much less common cause of hyponatremia than SIADH.
Restoration of euvolemia in CSW should remove the stimulus to ADH release, resulting in a dilute urine and correction of the hyponatremia. As mentioned above, this has not been documented in CSW. Lack of urinary dilution does not necessarily preclude CSW since it might be expected that patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage would also have SIADH.
For patients with documented CSW, salt tablets can be administered once the patients are able to take oral medications. Administration of a mineralocorticoid, such as fludrocortisone, can also be used [29,37,38].
Long-term therapy of CSW is not necessary since CSW tends to be transient [9]. Resolution usually occurs within three to four weeks.
The presence of both serum hyperosmolality and hypernatremia is highly suggestive for DI, but these laboratory alterations can be absent if the patient is conscious and has free access to water
Polyuria:urinary volume >150 ml/Kg/24 hours at birth, >100-110 ml/Kg/24 hours up to the age of 2 years, and >50 ml/Kg/24 hours in older children and adults (1).
a urine output exceeding 3 L/day in adults and 2 L/m2 in children.
Hypodipsic (Adipsic) Hypernatremia
Based on hypertonic saline infusion,four types of osmoreceptor dysfunction (thirst and ADH release) have beendescribed in hypodipsic patients: (1) reset osmostat, (2) decreased osmoreceptorfunction, (3) complete thirst osmoreceptor dysfunction, and (4) absence of thirstwith intact ADH release. Among these four types, only types A and C are common.
A defect in the thirst mechanism, located in a person's hypothalamus, causes dipsogenic diabetes insipidus. This defect results in an abnormal increase in thirst and liquid intake that suppresses vasopressin secretion and increases urine output. The same events and conditions that damage the hypothalamus or pituitary—surgery, infection, inflammation, a tumor, head injury—can also damage the thirst mechanism. Certain medications or mental health problems may predispose a person to dipsogenic diabetes insipidus. Researchers have not yet found an effective treatment for dipsogenic diabetes insipidus. monitor the patient’s blood sodium levels to prevent hyponatremia, or low sodium levels in the blood.
Adipsic DI
Attenuated thirst response
Challenging to manage
Present acutely with signs and symptoms of dehydration.
Hypothalamic lesions, craniopharyngioma, CNS trauma, CNS tumors, CNS neurosurgical procedures
Most DI do not manifest dehydration. Why?
Salt-wasting nephropathy: Not usually a cause of polyuria — As a general rule, underlying renal disease can impair sodium conservation in the presence of volume depletion. However, except in rare cases of Bartter syndrome [21], salt-wasting nephropathies do not cause true polyuria. This is in part due to the phenomenon of tubuloglomerular feedback in which increased sodium chloride delivery to the macula densa (due to decreased reabsorption in the more proximal segments) results in afferent arteriolar constriction and a fall in glomerular filtration rate, thereby limiting the degree of sodium chloride loss
Di with no polyuria
Biphasic pattern: first two phases only is more common than the triphasic pattern
Withholding water (eg, for diagnostic or surgical procedures) in adults with DI can result in severe dehydration. Thus, if oral intake has to be withheld, the patient should be hospitalized and hydrated intravenously and the plasma sodium concentration closely monitored while intake is restricted.
The water restriction test for the evaluation of polyuria involves measurement of the urine volume and osmolality every hour and the plasma sodium concentration and osmolality every two hours. We generally recommend that the patient stop drinking two to three hours before coming to the office or clinic; overnight fluid restriction should be avoided since potentially severe volume depletion and hypernatremia can be induced in patients with marked polyuria.
The water restriction test in adults is continued until one of the following end points is reached:
●The urine osmolality reaches a clearly normal value (above 600 mosmol/kg), indicating that both ADH release and effect are intact. Patients with partial DI may have a substantial rise in urine osmolality but not to this extent.
●The urine osmolality is stable on two or three successive hourly measurements despite a rising plasma osmolality.
●The plasma osmolality exceeds 295 to 300 mosmol/kg or the plasma sodium is 145 mEq/L or higher.
CHOICE OF THERAPY — There are three main options for the treatment of polyuria in patients with central DI:
●Desmopressin, which is an ADH analog and is the preferred drug in almost all patients.
●Other drugs, such as chlorpropamide, carbamazepine, thiazide diuretics, and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.
●A low-solute (mostly low-sodium, low-protein) diet.
The choice of therapy varies with the severity of the polyuria. Patients with partial DI and mild to moderate polyuria and nocturia may be adequately controlled with a low-solute diet (if acceptable to the patient) and, if necessary, a thiazide diuretic. Although these modalities also reduce the urine output in patients with marked polyuria and nocturia, desmopressin therapy is usually required for symptom control. Desmopressin can also be used in patients with less severe DI who do not want to comply with a low-solute diet.
Desmopressin therapy should be continued for as long as the patient has symptomatic central DI.
There are few long-term data on the use of the tablet form of desmopressin. In one study, eight children with central DI were treated and followed for up to 3.5 years [12]. There was no attenuation of the antidiuretic effect, and no side effects or antibody formation were noted. In another report, ten adults had satisfactory maintenance of the antidiuretic effect over one year with doses of 0.3 to 0.6 mg/day given in two to three doses per day; doses larger than 0.2 mg had no greater effect, eg, 0.4 versus 0.2 mg, but probably lasted longer [13].
drugs that increase ADH release or enhance ADH effect on the kidney such as chlorpropamide, carbamazepine, clofibrate, and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.