A Copeptin-Based Approach in the Diagnosis of Diabetes Insipidus.
Wiebke FenskeJulie C RefardtIrina ChifuIngeborg SchnyderBettina WinzelerJuliana DrummondAntônio Ribeiro-OliveiraTilman DrescherStefan BilzDeborah R VogtUwe MalzahnMatthias KroissEmanuel ChristChristoph HenzenStefan FischliAnke TönjesBeat MuellerJochen SchopohlJörg FlitschGeorg BrabantMartin FassnachtMirjam Christ-CrainPublished in: The New England journal of medicine (2018)
The direct measurement of hypertonic saline-stimulated plasma copeptin had greater diagnostic accuracy than the water-deprivation test in patients with hypotonic polyuria. (Funded by the Swiss National Foundation and others; ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT01940614 .).