Anhidrosis: an unusual presentation of diabetes insipidus.

Shimizu, H; Obi, T; Miyajima, H · Neurology · 1997

case_report · Level V

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Abstract

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.

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