Lithium-induced downbeat nystagmus

We report the case of a 76-year old lady under lithium carbonate for a bipolar disorder who presented with a suspected optic neuritis. A typical lithium-induced downbeat nystagmus was observed. Discontinuation of lithium therapy resulted in frank improvement in visual acuity and disappearance of the...

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Autores principales: Schein, Flora, Manoli, Pierre, Cathébras, Pascal
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2017
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Case images in ophthalmology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5722167/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29260083
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajoc.2017.06.012
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description We report the case of a 76-year old lady under lithium carbonate for a bipolar disorder who presented with a suspected optic neuritis. A typical lithium-induced downbeat nystagmus was observed. Discontinuation of lithium therapy resulted in frank improvement in visual acuity and disappearance of the nystagmus.
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spelling pubmed-57221672017-12-19 Lithium-induced downbeat nystagmus Schein, Flora Manoli, Pierre Cathébras, Pascal Am J Ophthalmol Case Rep Case images in ophthalmology We report the case of a 76-year old lady under lithium carbonate for a bipolar disorder who presented with a suspected optic neuritis. A typical lithium-induced downbeat nystagmus was observed. Discontinuation of lithium therapy resulted in frank improvement in visual acuity and disappearance of the nystagmus. Elsevier 2017-06-21 /pmc/articles/PMC5722167/ /pubmed/29260083 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajoc.2017.06.012 Text en © 2017 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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title_short Lithium-induced downbeat nystagmus
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5722167/
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