LITHIUM TOXICITY - A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY

Lithium is the treatment for acute mania and bipolar disorders. Ever since its introduction in the psychiatric arsenal, case reports of toxicity have been appearing in the literature at regular intervals. This study was thus carried out to study the presentation and associated features of lithium to...

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Autores principales: Kumar, Ratanendra, Deb, Jayant Kumar, Sinha, Baxi Neeraj Prasad, Sinha, Vinod Kumar
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2001
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2955933/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21407839
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author Kumar, Ratanendra
Deb, Jayant Kumar
Sinha, Baxi Neeraj Prasad
Sinha, Vinod Kumar
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description Lithium is the treatment for acute mania and bipolar disorders. Ever since its introduction in the psychiatric arsenal, case reports of toxicity have been appearing in the literature at regular intervals. This study was thus carried out to study the presentation and associated features of lithium toxicity. In this retrospective study, case record files of all patients suspected to have developed lithium toxicity during a five year period were retrieved. It was found that toxicity presented most commonly with cerebellar symptoms and appeared at lower serum levels. Lithium could be restarted albeit at a lower dose and with a gradual titration in a number of cases.
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spelling pubmed-29559332011-03-15 LITHIUM TOXICITY - A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY Kumar, Ratanendra Deb, Jayant Kumar Sinha, Baxi Neeraj Prasad Sinha, Vinod Kumar Indian J Psychiatry Original Article Lithium is the treatment for acute mania and bipolar disorders. Ever since its introduction in the psychiatric arsenal, case reports of toxicity have been appearing in the literature at regular intervals. This study was thus carried out to study the presentation and associated features of lithium toxicity. In this retrospective study, case record files of all patients suspected to have developed lithium toxicity during a five year period were retrieved. It was found that toxicity presented most commonly with cerebellar symptoms and appeared at lower serum levels. Lithium could be restarted albeit at a lower dose and with a gradual titration in a number of cases. Medknow Publications 2001 /pmc/articles/PMC2955933/ /pubmed/21407839 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Kumar, Ratanendra
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Sinha, Vinod Kumar
LITHIUM TOXICITY - A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY
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title_full LITHIUM TOXICITY - A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY
title_fullStr LITHIUM TOXICITY - A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY
title_full_unstemmed LITHIUM TOXICITY - A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY
title_short LITHIUM TOXICITY - A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2955933/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21407839
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