AN APPRECIATION OF PITIUTARY FUNCTION TESTS FOR THE DIAGNOSIS OF DIABETES INSIPIDUS / 西安交通大学学报(医学版)

The pitiutary function tests in diabetes insipidus were compared by means of analyses of clinical data. It is considered that the water deprivation-ADH test is more reliable than the hypertonic saline test in differential diagnosis of complete diabetes insipidus from partial diabetes insipidus and central diabetes insipidus from nephrogenic diabetes insipidus. Some suggestions on the time of water deprivation test, the improvement of hypertonic saline solution test and diagnosis of partial nephrogenic diabetes insipidus were made in this paper.