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Sudden death due to lymphoplasmacytic hypophysitis
K S Blisard1, R R Pfalzgraf, M G Balko
1Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, OH 45267-0529.
The American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology
|September 1, 1992
Abstract:
We report the case of a 37-year-old mentally retarded woman who died suddenly with premortem clinical signs of diabetes insipidus. At autopsy, her pituitary was infiltrated and destroyed by a lymphoplasmacytic infiltrate, affecting the posterior pituitary more severely than the anterior pituitary. Vitreous electrolytes showed a pattern of hypertonic dehydration, compatible with diabetes insipidus.