Anhidrosis: an unusual presentation of diabetes insipidus.
A 61-year-old man who had a 10-year history of anhidrosis was found to have idiopathic diabetes insipidus. He showed no spontaneous sweating or pilocarpine-induced sweat response. Skin pathology showed a normal eccrine gland. Microneurography detected no skin sympathetic nerve activity. Within a month of desmopressin treatment for diabetes insipidus, sweating and skin sympathetic nerve activity returned.
Shimizu
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First Department of Medicine, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Shizuoka, Japan.
Obi
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Miyajima
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D003894:Deamino Arginine Vasopressin / Q000627:therapeutic use; D003919:Diabetes Insipidus / Q000150:complications* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000503:physiopathology; D004594:Electrophysiology; D006801:Humans; D007004:Hypoglycemic Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D007007:Hypohidrosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010862:Pilocarpine; D012867:Skin / Q000294:innervation; D013545:Sweat Glands / Q000473:pathology; D013546:Sweating / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D013564:Sympathetic Nervous System / Q000503:physiopathology
D007004:Hypoglycemic Agents; D010862:Pilocarpine; D003894:Deamino Arginine Vasopressin