Vol. 31 (5) 2010 Neuro endocrinology letters

A patient with essential hypernatremia had good response to desmopressin acetate therapy.

OBJECTIVES: Essential hypernatremia is very rare in clinical practice and the pathogenesis is unclear. We performed a set of clinical tests to a patient with chronic and sustained hypernatremia as well as absence of thirst in order to investigate the clinical characteristics and make the diagnosis, yet most importantly to analyze the po.....