Lithium-Induced Sinoatrial Node Dysfunction

Lithium is a common mood-stabilizing drug for manic patients. We describe a case of sinoatrial node dysfunction in a patient with serum lithium levels within the therapeutic range. Given the symptomology and severity of the patient’s illness, after placing a permanent pacemaker, the patient was disc...

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Autores principales: Sarangi, Ashish, Javed, Sana, Paul, Tanya, Amor, Wail
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Cardiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8404648/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34513385
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16778
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Javed, Sana
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description Lithium is a common mood-stabilizing drug for manic patients. We describe a case of sinoatrial node dysfunction in a patient with serum lithium levels within the therapeutic range. Given the symptomology and severity of the patient’s illness, after placing a permanent pacemaker, the patient was discharged on the preadmission dose of lithium.
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spelling pubmed-84046482021-09-09 Lithium-Induced Sinoatrial Node Dysfunction Sarangi, Ashish Javed, Sana Paul, Tanya Amor, Wail Cureus Cardiology Lithium is a common mood-stabilizing drug for manic patients. We describe a case of sinoatrial node dysfunction in a patient with serum lithium levels within the therapeutic range. Given the symptomology and severity of the patient’s illness, after placing a permanent pacemaker, the patient was discharged on the preadmission dose of lithium. Cureus 2021-07-31 /pmc/articles/PMC8404648/ /pubmed/34513385 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16778 Text en Copyright © 2021, Sarangi et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Sarangi, Ashish
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Lithium-Induced Sinoatrial Node Dysfunction
title Lithium-Induced Sinoatrial Node Dysfunction
title_full Lithium-Induced Sinoatrial Node Dysfunction
title_fullStr Lithium-Induced Sinoatrial Node Dysfunction
title_full_unstemmed Lithium-Induced Sinoatrial Node Dysfunction
title_short Lithium-Induced Sinoatrial Node Dysfunction
title_sort lithium-induced sinoatrial node dysfunction
topic Cardiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8404648/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34513385
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16778
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