Central adrenal insufficiency and diabetes insipidus misdiagnosed as severe depression

Clinical Medicine Insights: Case Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2010, Pages 55-58

  Hiroi, Naoki ^a,b   Yoshihara, Aya ^a,b   Sue, Mariko ^b   Yoshino, Gen ^b   Higa, Mariko ^a  

^a SAISEIKAI YOKOHAMASHI TOBU HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b TOHO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Depression; Diabetes insipidus; Tertiary adrenal failure

Indexed keywords

17 HYDROXYCORTICOSTEROID; 17 KETOSTEROL; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CLOMIPRAMINE; CORTICOTROPIN; CREATININE; DESMOPRESSIN; GROWTH HORMONE; HYDROCORTISONE; INSULIN; LEVOMEPROMAZINE; LIOTHYRONINE; MILNACIPRAN; PROLACTIN; PROTIRELIN; RISPERIDONE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SOMATOMEDIN C; STEROL DERIVATIVE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; TIAPRIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UREA; VASOPRESSIN; ZOLPIDEM;

ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTHROGRYPOSIS; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; DECREASED APPETITE; DEPRESSION; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISEASE SEVERITY; FREE LIOTHYRONINE INDEX; FREE THYROXINE INDEX; GROWTH HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYPONATREMIA; HYPOTENSION; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT MOBILITY; PLASMA OSMOLALITY; POLYPOSIA; POLYURIA; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PSYCHOSOCIAL WITHDRAWAL; SELLA TURCICA; SYMPTOM; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; URINE OSMOLALITY; URINE VOLUME; VASOPRESSIN BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 78650739472     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11795476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4137/ccrep.s5812     Document Type: Article

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