OBJECTIVES: A highly invasive pathological diagnosis is necessary to differentiate central diabetes insipidus (CDI) with a thickened pituitary stalk. Lymphocytic infundibulo-hypophysitis (LIH) due to autoimmune involvement of the pituitary stalk i...
PURPOSE: To explore the clinical significance of anti-rabphillin-3A antibody for the differential diagnosis of lymphocytic panhypophysitis. METHODS AND RESULTS: A 58-year-old Japanese man developed uveitis of unknown cause in 2017. In 2019, he bec...
OBJECTIVES: Frailty is a state of increased vulnerability to poor resolution of homeostasis after a stressor. We hypothesized that frail older adults would tend to have electrolyte imbalances because they should have many stressors together with f...