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ea0015p231 | Pituitary | SFEBES2008

Anterior pituitary dysfunction occurs infrequently in adult idiopathic cranial diabetes insipidus

Moran Carla , Orr Carl , Glynn Nigel , Woods Conor , Thomspon Christopher

Recent literature suggests anterior pituitary hormone deficiency (APHD) is common in paediatric patients with idiopathic cranial diabetes insipidus (CDI); this has been attributed to autoimmune panhypopituitarism.1 We therefore determined the frequency of coexisting APHD and autoimmune disease in our cohort of patients with idiopathic adult CDI.Eight patients with idiopathic CDI were reviewed (6 females mean age at diagnosis 30 years, range 7&...