LITHIUM NEUROTOXICITY AT ‘THERAPEUTIC’ LEVELS A CASE REPORT

A case of a young manic patient who developed severe neurotoxicity when on lithium alone has been presented. Investigations did not reveal presence of any infection, electrolyte imbalance or rise in lithium level. The possibility of lithium producing neurotoxicity at therapeutic levels for as yet un...

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Autores principales: Sampath, G., Kumar, Y. Vikram, Narayanan, H. S., Rama Rao, B. S. Sridhara
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1980
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3013222/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22058487
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author Sampath, G.
Kumar, Y. Vikram
Narayanan, H. S.
Rama Rao, B. S. Sridhara
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description A case of a young manic patient who developed severe neurotoxicity when on lithium alone has been presented. Investigations did not reveal presence of any infection, electrolyte imbalance or rise in lithium level. The possibility of lithium producing neurotoxicity at therapeutic levels for as yet unknown reasons is pointed out. It is suggested that this element of risk be considered when starting lithium for therapy or prophylaxis of affective disorders.
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spelling pubmed-30132222011-11-06 LITHIUM NEUROTOXICITY AT ‘THERAPEUTIC’ LEVELS A CASE REPORT Sampath, G. Kumar, Y. Vikram Narayanan, H. S. Rama Rao, B. S. Sridhara Indian J Psychiatry Case Report A case of a young manic patient who developed severe neurotoxicity when on lithium alone has been presented. Investigations did not reveal presence of any infection, electrolyte imbalance or rise in lithium level. The possibility of lithium producing neurotoxicity at therapeutic levels for as yet unknown reasons is pointed out. It is suggested that this element of risk be considered when starting lithium for therapy or prophylaxis of affective disorders. Medknow Publications 1980 /pmc/articles/PMC3013222/ /pubmed/22058487 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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LITHIUM NEUROTOXICITY AT ‘THERAPEUTIC’ LEVELS A CASE REPORT
title LITHIUM NEUROTOXICITY AT ‘THERAPEUTIC’ LEVELS A CASE REPORT
title_full LITHIUM NEUROTOXICITY AT ‘THERAPEUTIC’ LEVELS A CASE REPORT
title_fullStr LITHIUM NEUROTOXICITY AT ‘THERAPEUTIC’ LEVELS A CASE REPORT
title_full_unstemmed LITHIUM NEUROTOXICITY AT ‘THERAPEUTIC’ LEVELS A CASE REPORT
title_short LITHIUM NEUROTOXICITY AT ‘THERAPEUTIC’ LEVELS A CASE REPORT
title_sort lithium neurotoxicity at ‘therapeutic’ levels a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3013222/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22058487
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