Skip to main navigation menu Skip to main content Skip to site footer

Viewpoint

Vol. 150 No. 2930 (2020)

To test, or not to test, and how … copeptin, please advise!

  • Jonas Rutishauser
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4414/smw.2020.20292
Cite this as:
Swiss Med Wkly. 2020;150:w20292
Published
22.07.2020

References

  1. Miller M, Dalakos T, Moses AM, Fellerman H, Streeten DH. Recognition of partial defects in antidiuretic hormone secretion. Ann Intern Med. 1970;73(5):721–9. doi:.https://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-73-5-721
  2. Zerbe RL, Robertson GL. A comparison of plasma vasopressin measurements with a standard indirect test in the differential diagnosis of polyuria. N Engl J Med. 1981;305(26):1539–46. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJM198112243052601
  3. Morgenthaler NG, Struck J, Alonso C, Bergmann A. Assay for the measurement of copeptin, a stable peptide derived from the precursor of vasopressin. Clin Chem. 2006;52(1):112–9. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1373/clinchem.2005.060038
  4. Balanescu S, Kopp P, Gaskill MB, Morgenthaler NG, Schindler C, Rutishauser J. Correlation of plasma copeptin and vasopressin concentrations in hypo-, iso-, and hyperosmolar States. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2011;96(4):1046–52. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1210/jc.2010-2499
  5. Refardt J, Christ-Crain M. Copeptin-based diagnosis of diabetes insipidus. Swiss Med Wkly. 2020;150:w20237. doi:.https://doi.org/smw.2020.20237