Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Arginine vasopressin disorder (previously diabetes insipidus (DI)) can be distinguished clinically into a relative deficiency of, or resistance to anti-diuretic hormone. Lithium is the mainstay of therapy for patients with bipolar affective disorder (BPAD), 40% of whom will go on to develop arginine vasopressin resistance (previously nephrogenic DI). We present a challenging case of an elderly gentleman receiving long-term lithium therapy who developed a hyperosmol...