Central diabetes insipidus

Central diabetes insipidus (CDI) is a hypothalamus-pituitary disease characterized by polyuria and polydipsia due to a vasopressin (AVP) deficiency. It can be inherited or acquired (hereditary CDI and acquired CDI; see these terms).

Facial palsy

Facial nerve palsy is a dysfunction of cranial nerve VII (the facial nerve) that results in inability to control facial muscles on the affected side with weakness of the muscles of facial expression and eye closure. This can either be present in unilateral or bilateral form.


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25224140
FEMALE Middle Aged
Autoimmune lymphocytic hypophysitis in association with autoimmune eye disease and sequential treatment with infliximab and rituximab.
Xu C, Ricciuti A, Caturegli P, Keene CD, Kargi AY.
Pituitary. 2015;18(4):441-7.
A 52-year-old woman presented with scleritis, uveitis, facial palsy, and central diabetes insipidus, accompanied by thickened pituitary stalk and enlarged pituitary on cranial MRI.