Pediatric diabetes insipidus

Diabetes insipidus is a condition in which a large amount of unconcentrated low specific gravity urine is excreted due to lack of antidiuretic hormone (adh) or the kidney does not respond to adh. The disease can be divided into two categories: central diabetes insipidus and renal diabetes insipidus. The central person refers to the lack of adh, which can be further divided into primary or secondary; the cause of the primary is unknown, and a small number may be hereditary; the secondary person is found in intracranial tumors (craniopharyngioma) ), Skull base fracture, intracranial surgery, radiation therapy, histiocytosis x, central nervous system infection, etc.

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