Lithium Toxicity With Lasting Mental Status Impairment

A 49-year-old female taking lithium for bipolar affective disorder for over 20 years presented with lithium toxicity resulting in declining mentation. Lithium poisoning has been well documented to cause acute gastrointestinal, cardiac, and neurological side effects, along with long-term neurologic s...

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Autores principales: Fenner, Rachel M, Bookbinder, Samantha, Kratzer, Joseph, McNeal, Ashley
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9477549/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36127998
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.28076
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author Fenner, Rachel M
Bookbinder, Samantha
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McNeal, Ashley
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description A 49-year-old female taking lithium for bipolar affective disorder for over 20 years presented with lithium toxicity resulting in declining mentation. Lithium poisoning has been well documented to cause acute gastrointestinal, cardiac, and neurological side effects, along with long-term neurologic sequelae. There has, however, been scant discussion on the potential long-term effects on mentation. The following case report illustrates a possible example.
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spelling pubmed-94775492022-09-19 Lithium Toxicity With Lasting Mental Status Impairment Fenner, Rachel M Bookbinder, Samantha Kratzer, Joseph McNeal, Ashley Cureus Internal Medicine A 49-year-old female taking lithium for bipolar affective disorder for over 20 years presented with lithium toxicity resulting in declining mentation. Lithium poisoning has been well documented to cause acute gastrointestinal, cardiac, and neurological side effects, along with long-term neurologic sequelae. There has, however, been scant discussion on the potential long-term effects on mentation. The following case report illustrates a possible example. Cureus 2022-08-16 /pmc/articles/PMC9477549/ /pubmed/36127998 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.28076 Text en Copyright © 2022, Fenner 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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Fenner, Rachel M
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McNeal, Ashley
Lithium Toxicity With Lasting Mental Status Impairment
title Lithium Toxicity With Lasting Mental Status Impairment
title_full Lithium Toxicity With Lasting Mental Status Impairment
title_fullStr Lithium Toxicity With Lasting Mental Status Impairment
title_full_unstemmed Lithium Toxicity With Lasting Mental Status Impairment
title_short Lithium Toxicity With Lasting Mental Status Impairment
title_sort lithium toxicity with lasting mental status impairment
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9477549/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36127998
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.28076
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