Diabetes Insipidus: A Challenging Diagnosis with New Drug Therapies

Table 1

Causes of central diabetes insipidus.

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Postsurgery: transfrontal/transsphenoidal

Traumatic brain injury

Tumors

 Primary

  Craniopharyngioma

  Hypothalamic tumors (glioma)

  Pitiutory adenoma

  Dysgerminoma

  Meningioma

 Hematologic

  Lymphoma, leukemia

 Metastatic

  Breast, lung

Infections

 TB meningitis

 Viral meningitis

 Cerebral abscess

 Toxoplasmosis

Granulomas

 Sarcoidosis

 Histiocytosis

Inflammatory

 Systemic lupus erythematosus

 Scleroderma

 Wegener's disease

Vascular

 Aneurysm

 Hypoxic encephalopathy

 Sheehan's syndrome

Chemical toxins

 Snake venom

 Tetrodotoxin

Genetic

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