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May 20th, 2022 - Novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) mainly affects the lungs, but can involve several other organs. The diagnosis of acute and chronic sequelae is one of the challenges of COVID-19. The current literature proposes that severe acute respirato...

May 12th, 2022 - Urinary specific gravity (SG) is a measure of the concentration of solutes in the urine. It measures the ratio of urine density compared with water density and provides information on the kidney’s ability to concentrate urine. A urinary specific g...

May 10th, 2022 - Lithium is a psychotropic drug used primarily in the treatment of bipolar disorder. It is renally excreted and characteristically causes nephrogenic diabetes insipidus as an adverse drug reaction. Lithium also requires serum level monitoring as th...

May 9th, 2022 - Pre-eclampsia with paradoxical polyuria: diabetes insipidus in pregnancy.|2022|Dashraath P,Chen K,Htet ZW,Chan SY,Kale A,|complications,diagnosis,etiology,diagnosis,

May 7th, 2022 - The differential diagnosis of diabetes insipidus is challenging. The most reliable approaches are copeptin measurements after hypertonic saline infusion or arginine, which is a known growth hormone secretagogue but has recently also been shown to ...

Feb 2nd, 2022 - Patients with nocturia are commonly referred to urology clinics, including many for whom a nonurological medical condition is responsible for their symptoms. The PLanning Appropriate Nocturia Evaluation and Treatment (PLANET) study was established...

Jul 23rd, 2021 - COVID-19 has changed the nature of medical consultations, emphasizing virtual patient counselling, with relevance for patients with diabetes insipidus (DI) or hyponatraemia. The main complication of desmopressin treatment in DI is dilutional hypon...

May 2nd, 2022 - This is a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled crossover pilot study of single-dose intranasal oxytocin (4 IU and 24 IU) in 18-60-year-old men and women with central diabetes insipidus to evaluate the effect of oxytocin on anxiety, depress...

Apr 27th, 2022 - Background Congenital combined pituitary hormone deficiency (cCPHD) is defined as the partial or complete loss of more than one hormone secreted from the pituitary gland, caused by genetic or prenatal factors. Combined pituitary hormone deficiency...

Apr 13th, 2022 - Disruption of the hypothalamic-pituitary axis due to congenital abnormalities, tumors or head trauma may cause anterior and/or posterior pituitary deficiency also known as partial or panhypopituitarism. Patients with hypopituitarism, especially th...

Mar 29th, 2022 - Wolfram syndrome, also referred to as DIDMOAD (diabetes insipidus, diabetes mellitus, optic atrophy and deafness) is a genetic syndrome characterized by beta-cell dysfunction and apoptosis leading to diabetes, neurodegeneration and psychiatric ill...

Dec 9th, 2021 - Open label, phase II study non randomized single group assignment of 20 evaluable patients 13 years and older, over 37,5 kg body-weight, with sensorineural hearing loss of at least 20 dB at 8 kHz in high frequency average (HFA), AND with documente...

Mar 16th, 2022 - The study covered in this summary was published on Research Square as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed. Key Takeaways A study of 78 patients who underwent elective transsphenoidal adenomectomy to remove a pituitary tumor or other lesi...

Mar 12th, 2021 - Children who have been treated for brain tumors often experience significant weight gain, and new findings suggest that this could be a sign of hypothalamic-pituitary (HP) dysfunction. "We believe that endocrine surveillance should be initiated ea...

Dec 5th, 2020 - Rupen Garg, BS EXPERT'S PERSPECTIVE: Bradford Hoppe, MD, MPH Associate Professor, University of Florida Proton Therapy Institute Why is this article contemporary? One concern for utilizing radiotherapy (RT) is the potential for toxicity,...

Apr 9th, 2020 - In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, endocrinologists should take certain precautions with patients they commonly treat, according to new guidance from editors of The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. Editor-in-Chief Paul Stewart, M...

Mar 26th, 2020 - Answer 2/5 Which of the following signs and symptoms is most suggestive of pituitary metastasis in patients with a history of breast cancer? Your peers chose: Neurocognitive impairment with headache 0% Worsening of an existing seizure disorder and...