Case for Diagnosis. ? Diabetes Mellitus with Diabetes Insipidus

A Case of Diabetes Insipidus Associated with Diabetes Mellitus

The patient, a married Hindu male, aged 54 years, a collecting sarkar by occupation, was admitted into the Carmichael Hospital for Tropical Diseases on the 13th February, 1947, for the following complaints : polyuria, nocturia, polydipsia, weakness and glycosuria. The duration of all these complaints was only two months. The patient gave a history of syphilis three months back for which he was ...

Pedigrees with diabetes insipidus, diabetes mellitus, and optic atrophy.

Diabetes insipidus--diagnosis and management.

Central diabetes insipidus (CDI) is the end result of a number of conditions that affect the hypothalamic-neurohypophyseal system. The known causes include germinoma/craniopharyngioma, Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH), local inflammatory, autoimmune or vascular diseases, trauma resulting from surgery or an accident, sarcoidosis, metastases and midline cerebral and cranial malformations. In r...

Diabetes mellitus, diabetes insipidus, optic atrophy, and deafness: A case of Wolfram (DIDMOAD) syndrome

PURPOSE To report a case of Wolfram syndrome (WS) characterized by diabetes mellitus, diabetes insipidus, progressive optic atrophy, and deafness. CASE REPORT A 19-year-old female patient, a known case of diabetes mellitus type I from six years before, presented with progressive vision loss since four years earlier. On fundoscopic examination, she had bilateral optic atrophy without diabetic ...

Physiopathology and diagnosis of nephrogenic diabetes insipidus.

Nephrogenic diabetes insipidus (NDI) is caused by an improper response of the kidney to the antidiuretic hormone arginine vasopressin (AVP), leading to a decreased ability to concentrate urine which results in polyuria and polydipsia. The clinical diagnosis of NDI relies on demonstration of subnormal ability to concentrate urine despite the presence of AVP. NDI is most commonly acquired, second...