ea0081p150 | Pituitary and Neuroendocrinology | ECE2022
Atila Cihan
, Gaisl Odile
, Vogt Deborah
, Werlen Laura
, Szinnai Gabor
, Christ-Crain Mirjam
Background: The differential diagnosis between central diabetes insipidus and primary polydipsia is challenging. To date, the most reliable approaches are copeptin measurement after hypertonic saline infusion or arginine, which is a known growth hormone secretagogue but has recently been shown also to stimulate the neurohypophysis. Similar to arginine, glucagon is also known to stimulate growth hormone release, but its effect on the neurohypophysis and in the differential diag...