Arrhythmia With Lithium Toxicity Requiring Urgent Dialysis: A Case Report

Lithium has been widely used as a mood stabilizer. With its narrow therapeutic index, systemic side effects, primarily neurological are a concern. Cardiotoxic effects of lithium are rare, reported as non-specific T-wave flattening, prolonged QT interval, sinus node dysfunction, ventricular tachycard...

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Autores principales: Rijal, Swarup Sharma, Oke, Ibiyemi, Shrestha, Biraj
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Cardiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8856736/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35198331
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.21427
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description Lithium has been widely used as a mood stabilizer. With its narrow therapeutic index, systemic side effects, primarily neurological are a concern. Cardiotoxic effects of lithium are rare, reported as non-specific T-wave flattening, prolonged QT interval, sinus node dysfunction, ventricular tachycardia, cardiomyopathy, and myocardial infarction. We report an interesting case of a young female patient with schizoaffective disorder on lithium who developed life-threatening cardiotoxicity secondary to lithium requiring urgent dialysis.
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spelling pubmed-88567362022-02-22 Arrhythmia With Lithium Toxicity Requiring Urgent Dialysis: A Case Report Rijal, Swarup Sharma Oke, Ibiyemi Shrestha, Biraj Cureus Cardiology Lithium has been widely used as a mood stabilizer. With its narrow therapeutic index, systemic side effects, primarily neurological are a concern. Cardiotoxic effects of lithium are rare, reported as non-specific T-wave flattening, prolonged QT interval, sinus node dysfunction, ventricular tachycardia, cardiomyopathy, and myocardial infarction. We report an interesting case of a young female patient with schizoaffective disorder on lithium who developed life-threatening cardiotoxicity secondary to lithium requiring urgent dialysis. Cureus 2022-01-19 /pmc/articles/PMC8856736/ /pubmed/35198331 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.21427 Text en Copyright © 2022, Rijal 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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Rijal, Swarup Sharma
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Arrhythmia With Lithium Toxicity Requiring Urgent Dialysis: A Case Report
title Arrhythmia With Lithium Toxicity Requiring Urgent Dialysis: A Case Report
title_full Arrhythmia With Lithium Toxicity Requiring Urgent Dialysis: A Case Report
title_fullStr Arrhythmia With Lithium Toxicity Requiring Urgent Dialysis: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Arrhythmia With Lithium Toxicity Requiring Urgent Dialysis: A Case Report
title_short Arrhythmia With Lithium Toxicity Requiring Urgent Dialysis: A Case Report
title_sort arrhythmia with lithium toxicity requiring urgent dialysis: a case report
topic Cardiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8856736/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35198331
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.21427
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