Diabetes Insipidus
Diabetes Insipidus: Excerpt from A Pocket Manual of Differential Diagnosis
Nephrogenic
(see Polyuria)
Central
Gestational diabetes insipidus (vasopressinase production)
Iatrogenic
Surgery (hypophysectomy)
Irradiation
Idiopathic
Familial
Isolated
Autosomal dominant
X-linked recessive
Wolfram [DIDMOAD (diabetes insipidus, diabetes mellitus, optic atrophy, deafness, atonia of bladder and ureters)] syndrome (autosomal recessive)
Sporadic (one-third have circulating antibodies to vasopressin-producing cells)
Infection
Actinomycosis
AIDS
CNS herpes
CNS lymphoma
Cytomegalovirus
Toxoplasma gondii
Basilar meningitis
Blastomycosis
Brain abscess
Brucellosis
Diphtheria
Encephalitis
Landry–Guillain-Barré syndrome
Measles
Mumps
Scarlet fever
Syphilis
Tuberculosis
Infiltrative
Amyloidosis
Eosinophilic granuloma
Histiocytosis X
Sarcoidosis
Wegener's granulomatosis
Xanthoma disseminatum
Miscellaneous
Circulating antibodies to vasopressin (secondary to Pitressin injection)
Collagen vascular disease
Empty sella syndrome (rarely)
Fat embolus
Hydrocephalus
Lymphocytic hypophysitis
Suprasellar and intrasellar cysts
Neoplasm
Astrocytoma
Craniopharyngioma
Dysgerminoma
Glioma
Large pituitary adenoma
Leukemia
Lymphoma
Meningioma
Metastatic cancer (especially breast, lung, and melanoma)
Pinealoma
Traumatic
Birth trauma
Head injury (basilar skull fracture)
Post–cranial surgery
Vascular
Aneurysm of the intracranial internal carotid artery
Cardiopulmonary arrest
Hypertensive encephalopathy
Intraventricular hemorrhage
Pituitary apoplexy
Ruptured cerebral aneurysm
Sheehan's syndrome
Shock/hemorrhage
Sickle cell crisis
Thrombosis
Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura
Vasculitis
References
1. Moses AM, Streeten DHP: Disorders of the Neurohypophysis, pp. 2005–2006. See Bibliography, 1.
2. Baylis PH, Thompson CJ: Diabetes Insipidus and Hyperosmolar Syndromes, pp. 257–258. See Bibliography, 2.
Book Source Details
- Book Title: A Pocket Manual of Differential Diagnosis
- Author(s): Stephen N. Adler, Dianne B. Gasbarra
- Year of Publication: 1999
- Copyright Details: A Pocket Manual of Differential Diagnosis, Copyright © 1999 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
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