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[Pregnancy-induced diabetes insipidus]

S Bangsbøll1

  • 1Gynaekologisk afdeling F, Frederiksberg Hospital.

Ugeskrift for Laeger
|October 25, 1993
PubMed

A case of transient diabetes insipidus in pregnancy occurring in a 26 year-old woman is reported, and possible mechanisms leading to this disorder are considered. Delivery of a healthy boy was uneventful after induction of labor with prostin, and the condition remitted spontaneously shortly after delivery, following a short period of exogenous desmopressin administration. A water deprivation test confirmed undetectable serum ADH values, presumably due to temporary inappropriate ADH secretion or excessive vasopressinase activity.

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