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Lithium Chronic Poisoning

Lithium neurotoxicity develops in patients on lithium therapy when renal lithium excretion is impaired for any reason

References

  • Hansen HE and Amdisen A.  Lithium intoxication.  Quarterly Journal of Medicine 1978: 47;123-144.
  • Oakley P, Whyte IM and Carter GL.  Lithium toxicity: an iatrogenic problem in susceptible individuals.  Australian & New Zealand Journal of Pyschiatry 2001; 35:833-840.
  • Waring WS. Management of lithium toxicity. Toxicology Reviews 2006; 25(4):221-230.

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