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Report of a Case

Mohammed Ahmed, MD; David C. Brown, MD; Robert O. Mulhausen, MD; Frank Q. Nuttall, MD

Arch Intern Med. 1976;136(10):1150-1153.

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Diabetes insipidus is a known complication of histiocytosis X.¹ We report a patient with compulsive water drinking and histiocytosis X. To the best of our knowledge, this association has not been noted previously. In addition, this patient was of interest because the results of a Carter and Robbins modification² of the Hickey-Hare test³ were initially misleading and suggested the presence of diabetes insipidus. Adverse consequences resulted from treating the patient with vasopressin injection (Pitressin).

PATIENT SUMMARY

A 39-year-old woman was referred to the Minneapolis Veterans Hospital for evaluation of polyuria. She had a history of pulmonary infiltrates for 14 years (Fig 1), diagnosed by lung biopsy two years before admission as histiocytosis X (eosinophilic granuloma) (Fig 2). Seven months before admission, she noted an onset of polydipsia and polyuria (5 to 14 liters/day).

One month before admission to the Minneapolis VA Hospital, she was admitted to another . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the metabolic (Drs Ahmed and Nuttall) and renal (Dr Brown) sections, Department of Medicine, Veterans Administration Hospital, Minneapolis, the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, and the Department of Medicine, St Paul Ramsey Hospital (Dr Mulhausen), St Paul.

Footnotes
Received for publication Nov 7, 1975; accepted Dec 15.

Reprint requests to the Department of Medicine, Minneapolis Veterans Administration Hospital, 54th St and 48th Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55417 (Dr Ahmed).

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