La Revue de médecine interne
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The incidence of hyponatremia is unknown, their causes are multiple. The higher mortality, especially in intensive care units, is currently unexplained. The objective of this article is to evaluate the incidence of hyponatremia, to assess their causes and to identify predictors of prognosis in intensive care units. ⋯ The frequency of hyponatremia is high; the normovolemic type represented 50%. Mortality is linked, in greater part, to organs dysfunction, but the severity of hyponatremia remained a significant predictor of mortality.
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Case Reports
[Pourfour du Petit syndrome: a rare aetiology of unilateral exophtalmos with mydriasis and lid retraction].
Pourfour du Petit syndrome, rarely reported, is the opposite of Claude Bernard-Horner syndrome. ⋯ Pourfour du Petit syndrome has the same localisation value and the same aetiologies as Claude Bernard-Horner syndrome, but its mechanism proceeds byan exciting lesion of cervical sympathetic nervous system. The recognition of this entity can allow the diagnosis of pathologies that need emergency treatment.
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We report an observation of Kimura's disease (angiolymphoid hyperplasia with eosinophilia) in a Black patient from West Indies, in a rare localisation on hard palate. ⋯ Kimura's disease was first described in Japanese young men, between 20 and 40 years old, with subcutaneous nodules on head and neck area. Involvement of oral mucosa is rare, and the occurence in West Indian patients has been rarely reported.