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OBJECTIVE In this study we aimed to establish the frequency of postoperative diabetes insipidus and the incidence and characteristics of abnormalities of thirst in a cohort of patients with craniopharyngioma, in whom neurosurgery had been performed. DESIGN Diabetes insipidus was determined by either standard criteria for diagnosis in the immediate postoperative period, or by water deprivation test, in all craniopharyngioma and pituitary tumour patients who underwent surgery in Beaumont Hospital between the years 1986 and 1998. Osmoregulated thirst and vasopressin release were studied during a 2-h infusion of hypertonic (5%) saline followed by a 30-min period of free access to water. PATIENTS Data on the incidence of postoperative diabetes insipidus was collected in 26 patients with craniopharyngioma and 154 patients with pituitary adenomata. We recruited 16 healthy control patients, 16 patients with cranial diabetes insipidus following pituitary tumour surgery and 16 patients with cranial diabetes insipidus following craniopharyngioma resection for the hypertonic saline infusion study. RESULTS Twenty-five patients out of 26 (96%) patients developed diabetes insipidus after surgery for craniopharyngioma, a much higher incidence than after surgery for suprasellar (26/88, 30%, P < 0.001) or intrasellar pituitary tumours (9/66, 14%, P < 0.001). Hypertonic saline infusion identified abnormal thirst responses in five of the 16 craniopharygioma patients studied; all of the pituitary tumour patients had a normal thirst response. Three of the craniopharyngioma patients had adipsic diabetes insipidus whilst two had polydipsic diabetes insipidus. CONCLUSION This study demonstrates following surgery for craniopharyngioma there is a high incidence of cranial diabetes insipidus and a significant incidence of abnormal thirst responses to osmotic stimuli.
Author(s): Smith D, Finucane F, Phillips J, Baylis PH, Finucane J, Tormey W, Thompson CJ
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Clinical Endocrinology
Year: 2004
Volume: 61
Issue: 2
Pages: 273-279
ISSN (print): 0300-0664
ISSN (electronic): 1365-2265
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2265.2004.02086.x
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2004.02086.x
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