RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Diabetes insipidus accompanying brain death in children
JF Neurology
JO Neurology
FD Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
SP 1243
OP 1243
DO 10.1212/WNL.34.9.1243
VO 34
IS 9
A1 Outwater, Kristan M.
A1 Rockoff, Mark A.
YR 1984
UL http://n.neurology.org/content/34/9/1243.abstract
AB Diabetes insipidus (DI) developed in 14 of 16 children who satisfied criteria for brain death. The occurrence of DI after an hypoxic/ischemic insult may represent midbrain death and seems to be a clinically useful sign in the diagnosis of brain death in children. In two patients, DI resolved spontaneously; these patients and children without DI may have had small areas of residual cerebral blood flow and brain function. The onset or cessation of DI was temporally associated with the use of dopamine in three patients.