LECTURE 2 DIABETE INSIPIDUS Flashcards
WHAT IS Diabetes insipidus ? NUMBER OF CASES ?
Inability of the kidney to concentrate urine
🡺 copious amounts of very dilute urine
rare disease:1-2 cases/100.000 persons,
F:M = 1:1.
Diabetes insipidus CAUSES ?
partial or total ADH deficit (central DI)
renal unresponsiveness to physiologic
actions of ADH (nephrogenic DI)
🡺!!! ADH levels are normal or elevated.
Clinical features: HOW IT APPEARS ? WHAT AGE ?
onset – sudden
occurs at any age (rarely in suckling)
Polyuria:
may be > 10 liters/day
urine is dilute, discolored, inodorous, insipidus
Polydipsia
thirst has imperative character
Polydipsia CHARACTERISTICS ?
ingestion of big amounts of liquid/24 hours,
Water is preferred
It exceeds polyuria :
due to an associated “potophillic index”
conditioned protective reflex (tendency to
over-satisfy the needs)
WHAT Dehydration may occur ?
liquid loss > liquid ingestion
more frequent in:
older patients,
patients given anesthesia,
cerebro-vascular accidents,
children under 4 years of age.
Dehydration results in ?
skin and mucosal dryness,
constipation,
weight loss,
confusion and
even death
What Symptoms due to causal
agent ?
opto-chiasmatic compression syndrome – tumoral syndrome
●headache
●hypothalamic functional disorders :
●polyfagia,
●heat or cold intolerance,
●behavior modifications.
What are Etio-pathogenic
mechanisms ?
Hypothalamic osmo-receptors destruction
- ADH synthesis defect.
- Absence of renal receptors
What is Clinical forms of Central diabetes insipidus ?
Acquired
•Hereditary
•Idiopathic
Clinical form of Nephrogenic diabetes insipidus ?
Hereditary
•Acquired
Central diabetes insipidus acquired ?
Tumors
●Trauma
●Granulomatous infiltration
●Post-infectious status
●Vascular causes (trombosis, hemorrhage,
necrosis, cerebral aneurisms)
Central diabetes insipidus Congenital?
Laurence-Moon-Bardet-Biedl syndrome (obesity, retinitis pigmentosa blindness, polydactyly, hypogonadism)
● D.I.D.M.O.A.D. syndrome (diabetes insipidus, diabetes mellitus, optic atrophy, deafness)
Central diabetes insipidus idiopathic ?
NOTHING
Nephrogenic diabetes insipidus congénital ?
Nothing
Nephrogenic diabetes insipidus acquired ?
drug-induced: lithium, colchicine, vinblastine
- renal diseases:
chronic renal failure,
hyperaldosteronism,
amiloidosis, sarcoidosis
- hypercalcemia:
hyperparathyroidism,
bone tumors,
Hodgkin disease,
sarcoidosis,
hypervitaminosis D.