Acta Médica Portuguesa (Oct 2004)

Diabetes insípida como forma de apresentação de leucemia mielóide aguda.

  • Susana Calretas,
  • Sara Leitão,
  • Emília Cortesão,
  • Ana Isabel Espadana,
  • Rui M Santos,
  • Armando Porto

DOI
https://doi.org/10.20344/amp.1104
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 17, no. 5

Abstract

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Central diabetes insipidus, is a syndrome characterized by the excretion of abnormally elevated volumes of diluted urine, due to the diminution of reabsorption of water in the collecting ducts, induced by the diminution of production of antidiuretic hormone. The involvement of the central nervous system in the leukaemia is frequent, but the association leukaemia/diabetes insipidus is rare. We describe a clinical case of a 40 years old female, whose first manifestation of leukaemia was diabetes insipidus; we discuss the difficulties of diagnosis, the particularities of the case and its evolution.