Diabetes insipidus
Etiology
Central (vasopressin deficiency)
- Primary (familial or idiopathic)
- Damage to hypothalamus or pituitary stalk by:
- Metastatic tumor
- Pituitary adenoma
- Anoxic encephalopathy
- Surgical or accidental trauma
- Encephalitis, tuberculosis (TB), syphilis
- Empty sella syndrome
- Radiation
- Sarcoidosis
- Eosinophilic granuloma (Langerhans cell histiocytosis, histiocytosis X)
- Vasopressinase-induced diabetes insipdus (DI) in pregnancy
- Congenital
- Drugs: glucocorticoids, diuretics, demeclocycline, tetracycline, lithium, foscarnet, methicillin
- Acquired: pyelonephritis, amyloidosis, multiple myeloma, hypokalemia, Sjögren's syndrome, sickle cell anemia, hypercalcemia, recovery from acute tubular necrosis (ATN)
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Last updated: December 1, 2014
Citation
Zeiger, Roni F.. "Diabetes Insipidus." Diagnosaurus, 4th ed., McGraw-Hill Education, 2014. Medicine Central, im.unboundmedicine.com/medicine/view/Diagnosaurus/114300/all/Diabetes_insipidus.
Zeiger RFR. Diabetes insipidus. Diagnosaurus. McGraw-Hill Education; 2014. https://im.unboundmedicine.com/medicine/view/Diagnosaurus/114300/all/Diabetes_insipidus. Accessed December 1, 2024.
Zeiger, R. F. (2014). Diabetes insipidus. In Diagnosaurus (4th ed.). McGraw-Hill Education. https://im.unboundmedicine.com/medicine/view/Diagnosaurus/114300/all/Diabetes_insipidus
Zeiger RFR. Diabetes Insipidus [Internet]. In: Diagnosaurus. McGraw-Hill Education; 2014. [cited 2024 December 01]. Available from: https://im.unboundmedicine.com/medicine/view/Diagnosaurus/114300/all/Diabetes_insipidus.
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