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Anhidrosis: an unusual presentation of diabetes insipidus
1First Department of Medicine, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Shizuoka, Japan.
Neurology
|December 31, 1997
Abstract:
A 61-year-old man who had a 10-year history of anhidrosis was found to have idiopathic diabetes insipidus. He showed no spontaneous sweating or pilocarpine-induced sweat response. Skin pathology showed a normal eccrine gland. Microneurography detected no skin sympathetic nerve activity. Within a month of desmopressin treatment for diabetes insipidus, sweating and skin sympathetic nerve activity returned.