>Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 17:10:29 +0100
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>From: margaret egan <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: conflicting results
>
>Dear colleagues,
>A 49 year old man with cranial diabetes insipidus and suspected high
alcohol intake presented to outpatients with the following results -
>Na 126mmol/l(135 - 145)
>K 4.0mmol/L (3.5 -5.0)
>Urea 1.8mmol/L (3.0 - 7.0)
>Creat 83umol/L (50 - 125)
>Se Osm - 260mmol/kg
>U Osm - 124mmol/kg
>Liver profile, corrected Ca and glucose were normal.
>DDAVP dose was 1 spray eight hourly.
>Patient was asymptomatic.
>Any comments?
>
>Regards
>Margaret
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