Endocrine Abstracts

The differential diagnosis of hypotonic polyuria is a frequent problem in clinical practice. Three fundamentally different types of defects have to be differentiated: central diabetes insipidus characterized by a lack of the antidiuretic hormone arginine vasopressin; nephrogenic diabetes insipidus characterized by renal insensitivity to arginine vasopressin; and primary polydipsia due to primary excess of fluid intake. The differentiation is crucial as treatment differs substa...

Mirjam Christ-Crain is full Professor of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at the University of Basel and the University Hospital of Basel, Switzerland. She studied medicine in Basel and Vienna and did her MD in the year 2000 at the University of Basel and completed her PhD degree in 2007 at the University of London followed by her habilitation at the University of Basel in 2007. From 2009 to 2015 she had a resea...