Children with pituitary-suprasellar tumors are at high risk of developing sodium metabolism disorders since the tumoral mass itself or surgical and medical treatment can damage AVP release circuits. Additional risk factors are represented by the use of hypotonic fluids, the young age, total parenteral nutrition and obstructive hydrocephalus secondary to tumor pathology. The most frequent hyponatremic disorders related to AVP in these patients are the syndrome of inappropriate ADH secretion (SIADH) and the cerebral/renal salt wasting syndrome (C/RSW), while hypernatremic conditions include central diabetes insipidus (CDI) and adipsic CDI. The main challenge in the management of these patients is to promptly distinguish the AVP release disorder at the base of the sodium imbalance and treat it correctly by avoiding rapid sodium fluctuations. These disorders can coexist or follow each other in a few hours or days, therefore careful clinical and biochemical monitoring is necessary, especially during surgery, the use of chemotherapeutic agents or radiotherapy. This monitoring should be performed by experienced healthcare professionals and should be multidisciplinary, including pediatric endocrinologists, neurosurgeons and oncologists since maintaining sodium homeostasis also plays a prognostic role in terms of disease survival, therapeutic response, hospitalization rate and mortality. In this review we analyze the management of sodium homeostasis disorders in children with pituitary-suprasellar tumors and discuss the main challenges on the diagnosis and treatment of these conditions based on literature data and over 30 years of clinical experience at our Department of Pediatric Endocrinology.

Clinical approach to sodium homeostasis disorders in children with pituitary-suprasellar tumors

Tuli, Gerdi;de Sanctis, Luisa
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2019-01-01

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Children with pituitary-suprasellar tumors are at high risk of developing sodium metabolism disorders since the tumoral mass itself or surgical and medical treatment can damage AVP release circuits. Additional risk factors are represented by the use of hypotonic fluids, the young age, total parenteral nutrition and obstructive hydrocephalus secondary to tumor pathology. The most frequent hyponatremic disorders related to AVP in these patients are the syndrome of inappropriate ADH secretion (SIADH) and the cerebral/renal salt wasting syndrome (C/RSW), while hypernatremic conditions include central diabetes insipidus (CDI) and adipsic CDI. The main challenge in the management of these patients is to promptly distinguish the AVP release disorder at the base of the sodium imbalance and treat it correctly by avoiding rapid sodium fluctuations. These disorders can coexist or follow each other in a few hours or days, therefore careful clinical and biochemical monitoring is necessary, especially during surgery, the use of chemotherapeutic agents or radiotherapy. This monitoring should be performed by experienced healthcare professionals and should be multidisciplinary, including pediatric endocrinologists, neurosurgeons and oncologists since maintaining sodium homeostasis also plays a prognostic role in terms of disease survival, therapeutic response, hospitalization rate and mortality. In this review we analyze the management of sodium homeostasis disorders in children with pituitary-suprasellar tumors and discuss the main challenges on the diagnosis and treatment of these conditions based on literature data and over 30 years of clinical experience at our Department of Pediatric Endocrinology.
2019
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Tuli, Gerdi; Matarazzo, Patrizia; de Sanctis, Luisa
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