ESPE Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology

To read the full abstract: Lancet. 2019 Aug 17;394(10198):587–595. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(19)31255-3.These authors previously described that the measurement of copeptin, a peptide cleaved in the posterior pituitary from the protein precursor of vasopressin and stable in circulation, is an accurate tool to diagnose diabetes insipidus (DI; vasopressin insufficiency). However, the...

To read the full abstract: N Engl J Med 2018;379:428–439In this multi-centre cohort of 156 patients with hypotonic polyuria, direct measurement of hypertonic saline-stimulated plasma copeptin had much greater diagnostic accuracy than a standard water-deprivation test, as judged by the final reference diagnosis, which was determined on the basis of medical history, test result...