Asthma precipitated by cessation of lithium treatment

Postgraduate Medical Journal

Volumn 75, Issue 888, 1999, Pages 637-638

  Convery, R P ^a,b   Hendrick, D J ^a   Bourke, S J ^a  

^a ROYAL VICTORIA INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b WHISTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adverse drug reaction; Asthma; Lithium

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; LITHIUM CARBONATE; SULPIRIDE;

ADULT; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BRONCHUS HYPERREACTIVITY; CASE REPORT; DIARRHEA; DROWSINESS; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HEADACHE; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION DISTURBANCE; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPOPARATHYROIDISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; LETHARGY; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; MANIC DEPRESSIVE PSYCHOSIS; NAUSEA; NEPHROGENIC DIABETES INSIPIDUS; POLYURIA; RASH; THIRST; TREMOR; VOMITING; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 0032860068     PISSN: 00325473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.75.888.637     Document Type: Article

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