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ReviewNature reviews. Endocrinology2024

Arginine vasopressin deficiency: diagnosis, management and the relevance of oxytocin deficiency.

Cihan Atila, Julie Refardt, Mirjam Christ-Crain

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Review in Nature reviews. Endocrinology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 30 papers.

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30citing papers in PubMed
19.3field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

30 citing papers in PubMed, 30 citations in OpenAlex.

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  20. The psychedelic-peptide paradox: a hormetic hypothesis.Comprehensive psychoneuroendocrinology · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Cihan AtilaDepartment of Endocrinology, Diabetology and Metabolism, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5442-7304
Julie RefardtDepartment of Endocrinology, Diabetology and Metabolism, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3040-4685
Mirjam Christ-CrainDepartment of Endocrinology, Diabetology and Metabolism, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland. mirjam.christ-crain@usb.ch.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6336-0965
University of Basel · CHUniversity Hospital of Basel · CH

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Polyuria-polydipsia syndrome can be caused by central diabetes insipidus, nephrogenic diabetes insipidus or primary polydipsia. To avoid confusion with diabetes mellitus, the name 'central diabetes insipidus' was changed in 2022 to arginine vasopressin (AVP) deficiency and 'nephrogenic diabetes insipidus' was renamed as AVP resistance. To differentiate the three entities, various osmotic and non-osmotic copeptin-based stimulation tests have been introduced in the past decade. The hypertonic saline test plus plasma copeptin measurement emerged as the test with highest diagnostic accuracy, replacing the water deprivation test as the gold standard in differential diagnosis of the polyuria-polydipsia syndrome. The mainstay of treatment for AVP deficiency is AVP replacement with desmopressin, a synthetic analogue of AVP specific for AVP receptor 2 (AVPR2), which usually leads to rapid improvements in polyuria and polydipsia. The main adverse effect of desmopressin is dilutional hyponatraemia, which can be reduced by regularly performing the so-called desmopressin escape method. Evidence from the past few years suggests an additional oxytocin deficiency in patients with AVP deficiency. This potential deficiency should be further evaluated in future studies, including feasible provocation tests for clinical practice and interventional trials with oxytocin substitution.

Indexed as

Arginine VasopressinDeamino Arginine VasopressinOxytocinPolyuriaDiabetes Insipidus, NephrogenicDiabetes Insipidus, NeurogenicDiagnosis, DifferentialGlycopeptidesHumansPolydipsiaArginine VasopressincopeptinsDeamino Arginine VasopressinGlycopeptidesOxytocin

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PMID38693275
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