ALLMedicine™ Diabetes Insipidus Center

Mar 13th, 2023 - History The symptoms of hypokalemia are nonspecific and predominantly are related to muscular or cardiac function. Weakness and fatigue are the most common complaints. The muscular weakness that occurs with hypokalemia can manifest in protean ways...

Mar 13th, 2023 - Diabetes insipidus (DI) is a common complication following endoscopic transsphenoidal surgery (TSS) for pituitary adenoma (PA), which affects the quality of life in patients. Therefore, there is a need to develop prediction models of postoperative...

Mar 11th, 2023 - Hand-Schüller-Christian syndrome (HCS) is a rare disease with little clinical awareness, but the condition is more dangerous, and it combines with empty sella syndrome (ESS) which is extremely rare. A 26-year-old male patient who had proptosis, he...

Mar 8th, 2023 - Patients will be referred to the nephrology or the renal physiology department for the usual follow-up of the lithium treatment. After verification of eligilibity criteria, information and collection of consent, patient will be randomized. During ...

Mar 7th, 2023 - There is increased interest related to the impact of coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) on the endocrine system and in particular on the pituitary gland. Over the course of the severe infection with acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-Co...

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...

Mar 8th, 2023 - Patients will be referred to the nephrology or the renal physiology department for the usual follow-up of the lithium treatment. After verification of eligilibity criteria, information and collection of consent, patient will be randomized. During ...

Jan 19th, 2023 - The purpose of this research is to study the effectiveness and safety of the medication PB in slowing the frequent urination related to tolvaptan as long-term treatment of Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD), or frequent urination...

Dec 21st, 2022 - Wolfram syndrome (WFS:OMIM 222300) is a group of inherited disorders that usually appear in childhood and cause diabetes, optic atrophy leading to loss of vision, deafness and often diabetes insipidus. Wolfram syndrome affected no more than 0.2 in...

Dec 19th, 2022 - 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...

Dec 1st, 2022 - The differential diagnosis of central diabetes insipidus (cDI) is difficult and the current test with the highest diagnostic accuracy is copeptin measurement after hypertonic saline infusion (HIS). Although the HIS improved diagnostic accuracy com...

Jan 30th, 2023 - A woman in her late 40s presented with painful ulcers in her groin and armpits that hadn't healed in 3 years, an Indian group reported in JAMA Dermatology. The woman explained that when the sores first appeared, they were just itchy, oozing, reddi...

Oct 24th, 2022 - An international group representing leading endocrinology associations has recommended that the name "diabetes insipidus" — which in some cases has led to harm — be changed to eliminate confusion with "diabetes mellitus" and to reflect the former ...

Oct 18th, 2022 - A study of U.S. veterans with type 2 diabetes found that those treated with thiazolidinedione had a 22% reduced risk of all-cause dementia versus metformin, while those treated with a sulfonylurea saw a 12% higher risk. (BMJ Open Diabetes Research...

Aug 24th, 2022 - During the pandemic, new cases of type 2 diabetes increased by 77.2% among pediatric patients. "Whether the increase was caused by COVID-19 infection, or just associated with environmental changes and stressors during the pandemic is unclear," res...

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...