Background: Cerebral Salt Wasting Syndrome (CSWS) refers to the process of intracranial lesions, sodium salt loss by hypothalamus-renal pathway and caused clinical manifestations syndrome of high urinary sodium, hyponatremia, hypovolemia. The clinical manifestations and laboratory are similar to syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion (SIADH). It is easy to be misdiagnosed. Cas...

The aim of this work was to study the effect of sodium chloride replacement with potassium chloride on quality changes of hot smoked Kilka during storage at ± 4°C. To achieve this, after initial preparation, samples were exposed to brining process in two salts. This study was designed in two stages: in the first stage, different levels of salt replacement were used to select the best smoked tre...

Cerebral salt wasting (CSW) is a rare complication in posterior fossa tumour surgery. We present two patients with cerebellopontine angle (CPA) tumours who developed cerebral salt wasting postoperatively. Both patients deteriorated in spite of intensive fluid and salt replacement. On CT scan the patients presented mild to moderate ventricular dilation, which was treated with an external ventric...

Six patients with jejunostomies and residual jejunal lengths of 105 to 250 cm took the same food and water each day for eight study days. In random order, three methods of salt replacement were tested, each over 48 hours, against a period without added salt. During the three test periods the patients took 120 mmol of sodium chloride daily, as salt in gelatine capsules, as an isotonic glucose el...

Cerebral salt wasting syndrome (CSWS) is characterized by severe natriuresis and volume depletion in the presence of cerebral pathology. In literature, there are few reports about tuberculous meningitis and cerebral CSWS. In this article, we report two tuberculous meningitis cases with CSWS and present a review of the literature on this topic. Cerebral salt wasting diagnosis was based on hypona...

Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in women and claim the lives of more than half a million women every year. The incidence of cardiovascular disease is 4-fold higher in postmenopausal women than in women of the same age who are premenopausal.1 Hypertension is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease. It has been shown that after adjustment for age and body mass index,...

In aortas of spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRs), excessive dietary salt causes down-regulation of soluble guanylate cyclase (sGC) followed by decreased cyclic GMP production, which leads to impairment of the vascular relaxation response to nitric oxide (NO). The present study aimed to elucidate whether this impaired NO/cyclic GMP system results secondarily from increased blood pressure or f...

This study evaluated the effects of sodium chloride reduction and replacement with potassium chloride or modified potassium chloride based salts using a weight or molar equivalent basis on the sensory and physico-chemical properties of pork sausage patties. Three independent replications of pork sausage patties were manufactured to compare five treatments: full sodium, reduced sodium, modified ...