A 75-Year-Old Woman with a 5-Year History of Controlled Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Presenting with Polydipsia and Polyuria and a Diagnosis of Central Diabetes Insipidus

Nobumasa Ohara; Toshinori Takada; Yasuhiro Seki; Katsuhiko Akiyama; Yuichiro Yoneoka

doi:10.12659/AJCR.938482

31 December 2022 : Case report Japan

A 75-Year-Old Woman with a 5-Year History of Controlled Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Presenting with Polydipsia and Polyuria and a Diagnosis of Central Diabetes Insipidus

Rare coexistence of disease or pathology

Nobumasa Ohara^1ABCDEF*, Toshinori Takada^2D, Yasuhiro Seki^3D, Katsuhiko Akiyama^3D, Yuichiro Yoneoka

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DOI: 10.12659/AJCR.938482

Am J Case Rep 2022; 23:e938482

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Figure 1. Serial changes in urine volume during hospitalization, before and after treating central diabetes insipidus with the synthetic arginine vasopressin analogue desmopressin. Oral desmopressin was started at 60 μg/day on day 4 of admission. As the dose was titrated up gradually, the daily urine volume decreased. After the dose was increased to 300 μg/day, the urine volume decreased to around 1 L/day.

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