Saline Infusion and Amiloride in the Management of Lithium Toxicity

This paper describes the case of a 74 year old patient who became lithium toxic after 15 years of lithium therapy. We discuss the clinical presentation of the case and some of the possible causes of the sudden development of his toxicity. Although haemodialysis is the treatment of choice for severe...

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Autores principales: Czerniewski, Ian W D, Short, Jacquline A, McConnell, A A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Clinical Press 1990
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5115052/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2093357
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description This paper describes the case of a 74 year old patient who became lithium toxic after 15 years of lithium therapy. We discuss the clinical presentation of the case and some of the possible causes of the sudden development of his toxicity. Although haemodialysis is the treatment of choice for severe lithium toxicity it is not always available. In this paper we propose that the combination of saline diuresis and Amiloride may provide a suitable alternative in the management of lithium toxicity.
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spelling pubmed-51150522017-02-02 Saline Infusion and Amiloride in the Management of Lithium Toxicity Czerniewski, Ian W D Short, Jacquline A McConnell, A A West Engl Med J Articles This paper describes the case of a 74 year old patient who became lithium toxic after 15 years of lithium therapy. We discuss the clinical presentation of the case and some of the possible causes of the sudden development of his toxicity. Although haemodialysis is the treatment of choice for severe lithium toxicity it is not always available. In this paper we propose that the combination of saline diuresis and Amiloride may provide a suitable alternative in the management of lithium toxicity. Clinical Press 1990-09 /pmc/articles/PMC5115052/ /pubmed/2093357 Text en Copyright © West of England Medical Journal Co Ltd http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
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