Drug-induced lithium intoxication: A case report [10]

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 360-361

  Spinewine, Anne ^a   Schoevaerdts, Didier ^b   Mwenge, Gimbada B ^b   Swine, Christian ^b   Dive, Alain ^c  

^a School of Pharmacy   (Turkey)

^b Department of Geriatrics   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIURETIC AGENT; ESCITALOPRAM; IRBESARTAN; LEVOMEPROMAZINE; LISINOPRIL; LITHIUM; RISPERIDONE; BIPHENYL DERIVATIVE; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; TETRAZOLE DERIVATIVE;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG EXCRETION; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; AGE; DRUG INTERACTION; NOTE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANGIOTENSIN-CONVERTING ENZYME INHIBITORS; ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENTS; BIPHENYL COMPOUNDS; DRUG INTERACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LISINOPRIL; LITHIUM; RISPERIDONE; TETRAZOLES;

EID: 15044345668     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2005.53126_10.x     Document Type: Letter

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