What is Diabetes Insipidus?

What is Diabetes Insipidus?

• Diabetes Insipidus: Rare pituitary disorder often affecting the kidneys.
• Diabetes Insipidus: metabolic disorder due to injury of the neurohypophyseal system; results in deficient quanity of antidiuretic hormone being released or produced, failure of tubular reabsorption of water in the kidney.
  Source - Diseases Database
• Diabetes Insipidus: a rare form of diabetes resulting from a deficiency of vasopressin (the pituitary hormone that regulates the kidneys); characterized by the chronic excretion of large amounts of pale dilute urine which results in dehydration and extreme thirst.
  Source - WordNet 2.1

Diabetes Insipidus: Introduction

Types of Diabetes Insipidus:

Types of Diabetes Insipidus:

• Central Diabetes Insipidous - most common type, caused by pituitary gland
• Nephrogenic Diabetes Insipidous - kidney dysfunction
• Autoimmune Diabetes Insipidous - caused by an autoimmune reaction
• Dipsogenic Diabetes Insipidous - hypothalamus damage causing abnormal thirst
• Gestational Diabetes Insipidous - related to pregnancy and ADH deficiency
• Thirst-related Gestational Diabetes Insipidous - rare type of gestational DI
• more types...»

Broader types of Diabetes Insipidus:

• Kidney conditions
• Systemic disorders
• Pituitary conditions
• more types...»

How many people get Diabetes Insipidus?

Incidence (annual) of Diabetes Insipidus: less than 15 per 100,000 hospitalized patients
Incidence Rate of Diabetes Insipidus: approx 1 in 6,666 or 0.01% or 40,800 people in USA [about data]

How serious is Diabetes Insipidus?

Complications of Diabetes Insipidus: see complications of Diabetes Insipidus

What causes Diabetes Insipidus?

Causes of Diabetes Insipidus: see causes of Diabetes Insipidus

What are the symptoms of Diabetes Insipidus?

Symptoms of Diabetes Insipidus: see symptoms of Diabetes Insipidus

Complications of Diabetes Insipidus: see complications of Diabetes Insipidus

Can anyone else get Diabetes Insipidus?

Inheritance: see inheritance of Diabetes Insipidus

Diabetes Insipidus: Testing

Diagnostic testing: see tests for Diabetes Insipidus.

Misdiagnosis: see misdiagnosis and Diabetes Insipidus.

How is it treated?

Treatments for Diabetes Insipidus: see treatments for Diabetes Insipidus
Research for Diabetes Insipidus: see research for Diabetes Insipidus

Organs Affected by Diabetes Insipidus:

Organs and body systems related to Diabetes Insipidus include:

• Pituitary
• Kidney
• Hypothalamus

Name and Aliases of Diabetes Insipidus

Main name of condition: Diabetes Insipidus

Research the causes of these diseases that are similar to, or related to, Diabetes Insipidus:

• Entral diabetes insipidus
• Nephrogenic diabetes insipidus
• Antidiuretic hormone
• ADH
• Arginine vasopressin
• AVP
• Polyuria
• Polydipsia
• Hypernatremia
• Dehydration
• Craniopharyngioma
• Pineal tumors
• Primary intracranial tumors
• Idiopathic diabetes insipidus

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