[Nephrogenic diabetes insipidus].

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Nephrogenic diabetes insipidus (NDI) is a rare disease characterized by polyuro-polydipsic syndrome (> 30 ml/kg/day in adult) related to an inability to concentrate the urine secondary to resistance to the antidiuretic action of vasopressin (AVP) or to its V2 agonist, dDAVP. NDI may be congenital or acquired. Congenital NDI, familial in most cases, are related in 90% of cases to mutations of the gene coding for...

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