Lithium intoxication in the pre-hospital care with stroke symptoms - Case report
Language English Country Sweden Media print
Document type Case Reports, Journal Article
PubMed
31184818
PII: NEL4001119C01
Knihovny.cz E-resources
- MeSH
- Antimanic Agents adverse effects therapeutic use MeSH
- Bipolar Disorder drug therapy MeSH
- Stroke diagnosis MeSH
- Diagnosis, Differential MeSH
- Humans MeSH
- Lithium blood MeSH
- Lithium Carbonate adverse effects therapeutic use MeSH
- Drug Overdose blood diagnosis MeSH
- Aged MeSH
- Check Tag
- Humans MeSH
- Aged MeSH
- Female MeSH
- Publication type
- Journal Article MeSH
- Case Reports MeSH
- Names of Substances
- Antimanic Agents MeSH
- Lithium MeSH
- Lithium Carbonate MeSH
Lithium is widely used in psychiatry to treat bipolar affective disorders since 1970 but little is known about the incidence, clinical course and associated factors of acute lithium intoxication. Moderate and severe cases of lithium intoxication are rare. This case reports a patient with acute lithium intoxication (serum level of 3.7 mmol/L) with neurological symptoms imitating stroke, which affects the differential diagnosis in the pre-hospital and hospital care. Patient was treated with forced diuresis and dismissed 21 days after admission.
Emergency Medical Services of Usti nad Labem region Czech Republic
Faculty of Biomedical Engineering Czech Technical University Prague Kladno Czech Republic
Prague Emergency Medical Services Prague Czech Republic
St Elisabeth University Bratislava Slovakia
Tropical Institute of St Elisabeth University Bratislava Slovakia
