title: Diabetes insipidus in a patient with diabetes mellitus.
abstract: The association of Diabetes Mellitus (DM) and Diabetes Insipidus (DI) without any congenital defects is very rare and we report here a case of type 2 diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) whose blood sugar was controlled by insulin, developing central diabetes insipidus 2 years later, which could be successively controlled by synthetic vasopressin.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, SUT Hospital, Trivandrum.
authors.forename: K P
authors.initials: KP
authors.lastname: Paulose
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Padmakumar
mesh_terms: D003919:Diabetes Insipidus / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000150:complications* / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged