Al-Jundi, Mohammad Nawaf Abdallah
Georgetown University – Washington Hospital Center, Washington DC, USA
Biography
Mohammad Al-Jundi has completed medical school in Jordan University of Science and Technology in Jordan. He is currently a third year internal medicine resident in Georgetown University – Medstar Washington Hospital Center and will start fellowship in Endocrinology and Metabolism in the National Institute of Health on July 2019. His main interest in Diabetes, Thyroid and Pituitary disorder.
Abstract
Hypernatremia is defined as increase of serum sodium concentration more than 145 meq per liter. It is a very common electrolyte disturbance. Severe hypernatremia defined as sodium level higher than 160 that is associated with a mortality of 60%. We present a case of a 64 year old intellectually disabled nursing home resident who is admitted with severe hypernatremia (serum sodium level of 181 meq/dl). We will discuss the atypical presentation of this patient and review the highest reported sodium level in medical literature and analyze hypernatremia in extremes of age.