Diabetes insipidus is an unusual case in patients who underwent open heart surgery. In this article, we aimed to present our experience of performing an atrial septal defect operation in a patient with diabetes insipidus who drank 30 l of water and urinated almost the same per day.

SUMMARY In a survey during a period of 3 years (1363 -1366), we have studied 15 Patients with diabetes insipidus due to accidents, measless and surgery. Finally, after this period we find that permanent diabetes insipid us was clear in (2 head. injury, 2 patients with head measle, and two after surgery for craniopharyngioma). In eight rest patients diabetes insipid us was temporary and subside...

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OBJECTIVE: To present a pineal tumor diagnosed after long clinical course of diabetes insipidus.CASE REPORT: A ten years old male patient, with symptoms of polyuria, polydipsia and nocturia for 18 months was admitted at the Nephrology Unit with the diagnosis of nephrogenic diabetes insipidus. Six months prior to his admission, he had been submitted to a computed tomography scan, which was consi...

The involvement of the pituitary stem frequently encountered since development imaging is revealed by diabetes insipidus in majority cases. can be target various pathologies, infectious, infiltrative, and tumor. In cases where etiological inve

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 ...

Adipsia combined with diabetes insipidus after hypothalamic damage may produce major difficulties in clinical management. If there is an associated memory impairment it may be impossible to teach self-regulation of fluid balance, necessitating long-term hospital supervision. The successful use of a behaviour modification technique to achieve independent drinking and allow discharge from hospita...

Status epilepticus causes significant morbidity and mortality. A case of generalized status epilepticus followed by massive pulmonary aspiration, acute respiratory failure and transient central diabetes insipidus is presented. Seizures were promptly controlled, but the patient required mechanical ventilation and correction of polyuria with desmopressin acetate. During hospitalization mental sta...

one patient with diabetes insipidus and adrenal insufficiency has previously been described (Skillern, Corcoran, and Scherbel, 1956), although a number of patients with loss of both anterior and posterior pituitary function have been reported (Leaf, Mamby, Rasmussen, and Marasco, 1952; Engstrom and Liebman 1953; Lipsett and Pearson, 1957). Because of the difficulties encountered in the manageme...

two brothers with didmoad syndrome are reported. the older brother has diabetes mellitus (type i), diabetes insipidus, optic atrophy, deafness and atonia of the urinary tract with severe symptoms such as diabetic ketoacidosis and frequent urinary tract infections. his younger brother had the same manifestations but with less severity. we report the findings of our two patients and compare them ...