1. Polyneuropathy in lithium intoxication
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Frans Piessens, Herwig Carton, Geert Vanhooren, Johan Van Hees, Ides Dehaene, Vic Vandenbergh, Martin Lammens, and Michel Van Zandycke
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Adult ,Male ,Lithium (medication) ,Physiology ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Neural Conduction ,Electromyography ,Lithium ,Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Lithium Carbonate ,Physiology (medical) ,medicine ,Humans ,Antipsychotic ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,Cerebellar ataxia ,business.industry ,Lithium carbonate ,Peripheral Nervous System Diseases ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,Discontinuation ,chemistry ,Anesthesia ,Reflex ,Female ,Neurology (clinical) ,medicine.symptom ,business ,Polyneuropathy ,medicine.drug - Abstract
Two patients developed acute sensorimotor polyneuropathy after intoxication with lithium carbonate. Nerve conduction studies, electromyography, and sural nerve biopsy proved it to be an axonal neuropathy. Recovery of muscle strength, reflexes, and sensory function started weeks after discontinuation of lithium therapy. One patient fully recovered within a year. In the literature we found nine other cases of lithium polyneuropathy.
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- 1990
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