Hipofiz kanamasına ikincil merkezi diabetes insipidus gelişen çok düşük doğum ağırlıklı erken doğmuş bir bebekte başarılı intranazal desmopresin asetat tedavisi

Central diabetes insipidus is characterized by polydipsia polyuria dehydration irritability poor feeding failure to thrive and hypernatremia This disease is caused by lack of antidiuretic hormone Here a very low birth weight premature infant who developed central diabetes insipidus secondary to pituitary hemorrhage in the newborn period and was treated successfully with intranasal desmopressin acetate was presented It was emphasized that desmopressin acetate might be an effective method also in the treatment of very low birth weight premature infants Turk Arch Ped 2013; 48: 241 243