Normal Osmotic Threshold for Vasopressin Release in the Hyponatremia of Hypothyroidism

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Abstract

To explore a possible downward setting of the hypothalamic osmoreceptors in the hyponatremia of hypothyroidism, 4 adolescent patients with hypothyroidism were studied. Plasma and urine osmolality were measured on random paired simultaneous samples, and following a water load. The osmotic threshold was determined by the isovolemic infusion of hypertonic NaCl, and compared to the osmotic threshold of 6 healthy subjects. Random paired urine and plasma osmolality revealed inappropriately high urine osmolality for the given plasma osmolality. A water load produced a normal dilution of urine. Osmotic threshold was found at plasma osmolality of 286–287 mosm/kg, compared to 286.7 ± 1.0 in 6 normal individuals. It is concluded that none of the known types of the syndrome of inappropriate ADH secretion could account for the hyponatremia in the hypothyroid patients, and that patients with hypothyroidism have normal osmoreceptors as measured by the osmotic threshold test.

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Journal ID (publisher-id): HRE

Journal ID (nlm-ta): Horm Res Paediatr

Journal ID (doi): 10.1159/issn.1663-2818

Title: Hormone Research in Paediatrics

Publisher: S. Karger AG

ISSN (Print): 1663-2818

ISSN (Electronic): 1663-2826

Publication date Subscription-year: 1983

Publication date (Print): 1983

Publication date (Electronic): 26 November 2008

Volume: 17

Issue: 3

Pages: 128-133

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Department of Pediatrics, A. Rambam Medical Center and the Pediatric Endocrine Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

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Publisher ID: 179687 Other ID: Horm Res 1983;17:128–133

DOI: 10.1159/000179687

PubMed ID: 6852775

SO-VID: 9bc12843-f556-43bb-8c02-7a1c1c6de55e

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Date received : 11 March 1982

Date accepted : 31 August 1982

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Pages: 6

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