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A case of nocturnal polyuria in olivopontocerebellar atrophy
T Miyamoto1, M Miyamoto, N Yokota
1Department of Neurology, Dokkyo University School of Medicine, Mibu, Tochigi, Japan.
Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
|August 25, 1999
Abstract:
We report a case of olivopontocerebellar atrophy without sleep apnea syndrome who presented nocturnal polyuria. It is considered that a disturbance in the circadian rhythm for arginine vasopressin secretion due to degeneration of suprachiasmatic nuclei and marked increase in the secretion of atrial natriuretic peptide due to abnormal diurnal variation in blood pressure may be involved in the mechanism of nocturnal polyuria.