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[Inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion syndrome: a rare manifestation of prostatic adenocarcinoma]
J G Pereira Arias1, A Astobieta Odriozola, N Prieto Ugidos
1Servicio de Urología, Hospital de Galdacano, Galdacano, Vizcaya, España.
Objective:
Prostatic cancer can produce signs and symptoms by local growth, direct invasion or distant metastases. In rare occasions, these tumors can show a clinical variance due to trophic factors, biologically active, secreted in neoplastic environment but with systemic relevance. These syndromes are called paraneoplastic syndromes. This uncommon condition is described herein.
Method/Results:
We report a case of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion as the presenting feature of advanced prostatic carcinoma. The pathogenic features, diagnostic and therapeutic aspects are reviewed.
Conclusions:
Although its frequency is low, we must consider prostatic carcinoma in patients with inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion syndrome. When the acute situation is resolved, hormonal treatment in disseminated carcinomas will return to normal the clinical and analytical parameters derived from this syndrome.