Diagnosis of arginine vasopressin deficiency in a patient with 10 years of polyuria and polydipsia following an Epstein-Barr virus infection.

Polyuria-polydipsia syndrome is composed of arginine vasopressin deficiency, arginine vasopressin resistance and primary polydipsia and are characterised by severe polyuria with hypotonic urine. The water deprivation test is commonly used to indirectly assess the vasopressin response to water deprivation. We report a woman in her 20s who demonstrated severe polyuria (11-12 L/day) on submitting a 24-hour urine sample for analysis.

PCR-Based Evaluation of Tuberculous Endometritis in Infertile Women of North India.

Background: Tuberculous endometritis is often a diagnostic dilemma for gynecologists in the evaluation of infertility. This study evaluated and compared different diagnostic methods in tuberculous endometritis.

Methods: 100 infertile women were investigated for tuberculous endometritis.