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Recurrent diabetes insipidus associated with pregnancy: pathophysiology and therapy
J M Hughes1, W M Barron, M L Vance
1Department of Internal Medicine, University of Virginia Medical Center, Charlottesville.
Obstetrics and Gynecology
|March 1, 1989
Abstract:
Diabetes insipidus during pregnancy is an uncommon medical problem. We present a woman who developed transient central diabetes insipidus during two successive pregnancies. A water deprivation study with plasma arginine vasopressin concentrations confirmed the diagnosis and established the efficacy of 1-desamino-8-d-arginine-vasopressin (dDAVP). The patient was then successfully and safely treated through the second pregnancy with dDAVP.