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The major causes of central diabetes insipidus are neoplastic or infiltrative lesions of the hypothalamus or pituitary, severe head injuries and pituitary or hypothalamic surgery. Central diabetes insipidus caused by viral infections has been rarely reported in immunosuppressed patients, such as those with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome or Cushing's syndrome. We report the case of a 48-year-old woman suffering from diffuse large cell lymphoma, who developed hypotonic polyuria, hypernatriaemia and somnolence after the first course of chemotherapy with CHOEP and rituximab. Diabetes insipidus was diagnosed by low urine osmolarity and an undetectable vasopressin concentration. MRI revealed no pituitary abnormalities but encephalitis, and lumbar punction confirmed herpes zoster infection. To the best of our knowledge this is the first description of central diabetes insipidus in a lymphoma patient caused by an opportunistic CNS-infection.
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The present study was undertaken to determine whether urinary excretion of aquaporin-2 (AQP-2) water channel under ad libitum water intake is of value to differentiate polyuria caused by psychogenic polydipsia from central diabetes insipidus. A 30-min urine collection was made at 0900 h in 3 groups of: 11 patients with central diabetes insipidus (22-68 yr old), 10 patients with psychogenic polydipsia (28-60 yr old), and 15 normal subjects (21-38 yr old). In the patients with central diabetes insipidus, the plasma arginine vasopressin level was low despite hyperosmolality, resulting in hypotonic urine. Urinary excretion of AQP-2 was 37 +/- 15 fmol/mg creatinine, a value one-fifth less than that in the normal subjects. In the patients with psychogenic polydipsia, plasma arginine vasopressin and urinary osmolality were as low as those in the patients with central diabetes insipidus. However, urinary excretion of AQP-2 of 187 +/- 45 fmol/mg creatinine was not decreased, and its excretion was equal to that in the normal subjects. These results indicate that urinary excretion of AQP-2, under ad libitum water drinking, participates in the differentiation of psychogenic polydipsia from central diabetes insipidus.
OBJECTIVE: Elucidation and identification of the molecular biological alteration in the arginine-vasopressin neurophysin II AVP-NPII gene in a family with familial neurohypophysial diabetes insipidus (FNDI). DESIGN: Descriptive. METHODS: Following the finding of diabetes insipidus in a 2-year-old boy and his father a molecular genetic investigation was performed in the Isala Klinieken, Sophia location, in Zwolle, the Netherlands, to determine the nature of a possible gene mutation. Thereafter the AVP-NPII gene was screened in the family with polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and restriction enzyme analysis on DNA isolated from peripheral blood. An extensive pedigree was made. RESULTS: A new mutation in the AVP-NPII gene was identified in the part encoding the transport peptide neurophysin II. in exon 3, on codon 116, in which thymine was replaced by guanine, leading to the amino acid glycine instead of cysteine in the gene product. CONCLUSION: In a Dutch family with familial neurohypophysial diabetes insipidus a new gene mutation was found (CysII6Gly). Clarification of the molecular background of FNDI in this family made it possible to test family members in a relatively simple and friendly way (without the thirsting test) by PCR and restriction enzyme analysis for the presence of the mutation and the predisposition for diabetes insipidus.
Seventeen patients with idiopathic diabetes insipidus occurring in childhood were observed from 4 to 26 years (mean duration 15 1/2 years). The diagnosis of idiopathic diabetes insipidus was based on routine clinical examination and careful, repeated neuroradiologic investigations. Anterior pituitary dysfunction was present in some of these patients. Growth hormone deficiency was present in six children, insufficient thyroid stimulating hormone secretion after thyrotropin-releasing hormone stimulation was demonstrated in one, and abnormal response to a metyrapone test in two. Elevated prolactin and TSH values were present in three and two patients, respectively. Some of these abnormalities were transitory. The presence of anterior pituitary dysfunction in idiopathic diabetes insipidus indicates that the destructive process is not localized to vasopressin synthesizing cells but may also involve other parts of the hypothalamus.
Clofibrate has been considered to be a relatively safe antidiuretic in the treatment of diabetes insipidus. However, we have recently had four cases of clofibrate-induced myopathy in patients with diabetes insipidus due to hypothalamic lesions. Physicians should therefore be aware of its occurrence and carefully monitor serum levels of CPK, GOT and GPT during the treatment of diabetes insipidus with clofibrate, especially in patients with associated hypothyroidism, latent or overt, which possibly favors the development of myopathy.
We report the case of a patient who developed severe hypernatraemic dehydration following a head injury. Ten years previously he had been diagnosed to have lithium-induced nephrogenic diabetes insipidus, and lithium therapy had been discontinued. He remained thirsty and polyuric despite cessation of lithium and investigations on admission showed him to have normal osmoregulated thirst and vasopressin secretion, with clear evidence of nephrogenic diabetes insipidus. Lithium induced nephrogenic diabetes insipidus is considered to be reversible on cessation of therapy but polyuria persisted in this patient for ten years after lithium was stopped. We discuss the possible renal mechanisms and the implications for management of patients with lithium-induced nephrogenic diabetes insipidus.
Fourteen of 58 (24%) children with Langerhans cell hisiocytosis (LCH) currently attending the Hospital for Sick Children (London) developed thirst and polyuria during the course of their disease. Three had single-system disease confined to bone, and 11 had multisystem disease. The median age at presentation of LCH was 2 years 0 months, and polyuria/polydipsia developed at a median age of 3 years 9 months (range 1 month before diagnosis of LCH to 4 years after diagnosis). Each child had a water deprivation test with measurement of urinary arginine vasopressin (AVP) to document diabetes insipidus. The doses of 1-desamino-8-D arginine vasopressin (DDAVP) required to control symptoms were compared at diagnosis and at a mean follow-up of 7 years 8 months. Local and systemic treatment was recorded. Ten of 14 children were shown to have "complete" diabetes insipidus, whilest the other four had "partial" diabetes insipidus. Seven children were treated with irradiation. with or without systemic chemotherapy, six with systemic chemotherapy only, and one with DDAVP replacement only. No child, including two with partial diabetes insipidus irradiated within 4 weeks of the onset of symptoms, lost symptoms of polyuria/polydypsia and none was able to discontinue DDAVP replacement. One child treated with Etoposide showed a temporary rise in urinary AVP level to within the normal range but still needed DDAVP to control her symptoms. The mean doses of DDAVP at onset of diabetes insipidus and at follow-up were 9.3 micrograms and 18 micrograms daily, respectively. We conclude that the most appropriate treatment for reversing diabetes insipidus complicating Langerhans cell histiocytosis is yet to be determined. Precise documentation of posterior pituitary dysfunction, including measurement of urinary AVP levels, is essential if the effects of new forms of treatment are to be assessed accurately.
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A 6-year-old boy with nephrogenic diabetes insipidus (NDI) and intracranial calcification is reported. The calcifications were symmetrical and located in the basal ganglia and in the subcortical regions of the frontal, temporal, parietal and occipital lobes. Episodes of hyperosmolality during infancy are considered to be one of the causes of intracranial calcification in NDI. However, other unknown factors may be involved, because up to now there have been no reports of intracranial calcification in patients with central diabetes insipidus.
Antidiuretic hormone is known to stimulate the renal synthesis of prostaglandins. These autacoids, in turn, modulate the pressure natriuresis phenomenon. Accordingly, the present study was done to test the hypothesis that, in the absence of antidiuretic hormone and antidiuretic hormone-dependent prostaglandin synthesis, the pressure natriuresis response is blunted. Experiments were performed on Brattleboro diabetes insipidus rats (n = 7) and Long Evans control rats (n = 14). A change in perfusion pressure in the Long Evans rats from 89.3 +/- 1.0 to 108.7 +/- 1.1 mm Hg (p less than 0.05) was associated with significant increases in the fractional excretion of sodium (1.1 +/- 0.2 to 2.3 +/- 0.3%) and the urinary prostaglandin excretion (32.6 +/- 6.8 to 56.6 +/- 10.0 pg/min). In contrast, a similar change in perfusion pressure in the diabetes insipidus rat from 88.6 +/- 1.4 to 106.2 +/- 1.5 mm Hg (p less than 0.05) resulted in no significant increases in either sodium or prostaglandin excretions. Treatment of a third group of diabetes insipidus rats (n = 9) with 1-desamino-8-D-arginine vasopressin (1 microgram/day) restored the natriuretic response to increases in renal perfusion pressure. Treated diabetes insipidus and Long Evans control rats had comparable natriuretic responses to increases in renal perfusion pressure. Untreated diabetes insipidus rats, on the other hand, had blunted responses. In summary, the pressure natriuresis response in diabetes insipidus rats is blunted compared with Long Evans control rats. We conclude that antidiuretic hormone is necessary for the complete expression of the pressure natriuresis response.
To elucidate the molecular mechanism of familial central diabetes insipidus (FDI), we sequenced the arginine vasopressin-neurophysin II (AVP-NPII) gene in 2 patients belonging to a pedigree that is consistent with an autosomal dominant mode of inheritance. 10 patients with idiopathic central diabetes insipidus (IDI) and 5 normals were also studied. The AVP-NPII gene, locating on chromosome 20, consists of three exons that encode putative signal peptide, AVP, NPII, and glycoprotein. Using polymerase chain reaction, fragments including the promoter region and all coding regions were amplified from genomic DNA and subjected to direct sequencing. Sequences of 10 patients with IDI were identical with those of normals, while in 2 patients with FDI, a single base substitution was detected in one of two alleles of the AVP-NPII gene, indicating they were heterozygotes for this mutation. It was a G----A transition at nucleotide position 1859 in the second exon, resulting in a substitution of Gly for Ser at amino acid position 57 in the NPII moiety. It was speculated that the mutated AVP-NPII precursor or the mutated NPII molecule, through their conformational changes, might be responsible for AVP deficiency.
A review of 88 cases from the literature with personal observations on 3 new patients is given of the syndrome featured by juvenile diabetes mellitus, optic atrophy, hearing loss, diabetes insipidus, atonia of the urinary tract and bladder and other abnormalities. The postmortem in one of our cases is mentioned. The pattern of inheritance is autosomal recessive. The interpretation of the data on diabetes insipidus from the literature and in our three patients is also discussed. It can only be stated that neurohypophyseal diabetes insipidus can be a component of the syndrome and that in many cases--particularly in the presence of lesions of the efferent urinary tract--the possibility of nephrogenous diabetes insipidus can not be excluded with certainty. It seems probable that the same mechanism can be held responsible for the lesions of the olfactory, optic, vestibular and cochlear nerves, the hypophyseal form of diabetes insipidus, retarded sexual maturation, abnormal pupillary reaction, myelopathy and the electro-encephalographic, electroneurological and electromyographic changes in the Wolfram syndrome. The process underlying this affection of neural structures remains obscure.
Congenital nephrogenic diabetes insipidus is a recessive hereditary disorder characterized by the inability of the kidney to concentrate urine in response to vasopressin. Recently, we reported mutations in the gene encoding the water channel of the collecting duct, aquaporin-2 (AQP-2) causing an autosomal recessive form of nephrogenic diabetes insipidus (NDI). Expression of these mutant AQP-2 proteins (Gly64Arg, Arg187Cys, Ser216Pro) in Xenopus oocytes revealed nonfunctional water channels. Here we report further studies into the inability of these missense AQP-2 proteins to facilitate water transport in Xenopus oocytes. cRNAs encoding the missense AQPs were translated with equal efficiency as cRNAs encoding wild-type AQP-2 and were equally stable. Arg187Cys AQP2 was more stable and Gly6-4Arg and Ser216Pro AQP2 were less stable when compared to wild-type AQP2 protein. On immunoblots, oocytes expressing missense AQP-2 showed, besides the wild-type 29 kDa band, an endoplasmic reticulum-retarded form of AQP-2 of approximately 32 kD. Immunoblots and immunocytochemistry demonstrated only intense labeling of the plasma membranes of oocytes expressing wild-type AQP-2. Therefore, we conclude that in Xenopus oocytes the inability of Gly64-Arg, Arg187Cys or Ser216Pro substituted AQP-2 proteins to facilitate water transport is caused by an impaired routing to the plasma membrane.
The mechanism of lithium-induced diabetes insipidus was investigated in 96 patients and in a rat model. Polydipsia was reported by 40% and polyuria (more than 3 liter/day) by 12% of patients receiving lithium. Maximum concentrating ability after dehydration and vasopressin was markedly impaired in 10 polyuric patients and was reduced in 7 of 10 nonpolyuric patients studied before and during lithium therapy. Severe polyuria (more than 6 liter/day) was unresponsive to trials of vasopressin and chlorpropamide, but improved on chlorothiazide. Rats receiving lithium (3-4 meq/kg/day) developed massive polyuria that was resistant to vasopressin, in comparison to rats with comparable polyuria induced by drinking glucose. Analysis of renal tissue in rats with lithium polyuria showed progressive increase in the concentration of lithium from cortex to papilla with a 2.9-fold corticopapillary gradient for lithium. The normal corticopapillary gradient for sodium was not reduced by lithium treatment. The polyuria was not interrupted by brief intravenous doses of vasopressin (5-10 mU/kg) or dibutyryl cyclic AMP (10-15 mg/kg) capable of reversing water diuresis in normal and hypothalamic diabetes insipidus rats (Brattleboro strain). The present studies suggest that nephrogenic diabetes insipidus is a common finding after lithium treatment and results in part from interference with the mediation of vasopressin at a step distal to the formation of 3',5' cyclic AMP.
Pre-operative central diabetes insipidus has been reported in 8-35% of patients affected with craniopharyngioma, and in 70-90% after surgery. The management of postoperative polyuria and polydipsia can be challenging and fluid balance needs to be closely monitored. The classical triphasic pattern of endogenous vasopressin secretion--an initial phase of symptomatic diabetes insipidus occurring 24 hours after surgery; a second phase of inappropriate vasopressin secretion potentially causing hyponatraemia; and a third phase with a return to diabetes insipidus occurring up to 2 weeks later--is often complicated by cerebral salt wasting and thirst disorders. Inadequate adrenal replacement therapy and anticonvulsant agent treatment may increase the risk of life-threatening hyponatraemia in the course of desmopressin (DDAVP) treatment. Appropriate management, in order to avoid life-threatening or disabling electrolyte disturbances, requires a good grasp of the relevant pathophysiology. We review here the pathophysiology and management of the multiple fluid disorders encountered following surgery for craniopharyngiomas.
Nephrogenic diabetes insipidus associated with high basal levels of plasma arginine vasopressin developed in a patient during lithium therapy. Fluid deprivation was accompanied by an increase in the concentration in peripheral venous plasma of vasopressin and angiotensin II, a rise in plasma osmolality and a modest rise in urine osmolality. Infusion of arginine vasopressin produced comparable levels of plasma vasopressin to those found during fluid deprivation, with no overall change in plasma angiotensin II and little change in urine volume or osmolality. It is suggested that angiotensin II may be responsible for the difference in ability to concentrate urine under these two conditions. Following death by self-poisoning, renal histology revealed distinct structural changes in the distal tubules: such lesions have not previously been described in man and it is suggested that the occurrence of nephrogenic diabetes insipidus while on lithium therapy may be related to tubular damage.