Rapid onset of neurological symptoms and lithium toxicity on starting meloxicam

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 95-

  Chen, Leonard ^a   Pym, Holly ^b  

^a MACKAY BASE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM CARBONATE; MELOXICAM; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ADULT; BALANCE DISORDER; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CASE REPORT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONFUSION; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FEVER; HEMODIALYSIS; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPERREFLEXIA; HYPERSALIVATION; HYPERTENSION; LETHARGY; LETTER; MUSCLE HYPERTONIA; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NAUSEA; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; TREMOR; VOMITING;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; ANTIMANIC AGENTS; BIPOLAR DISORDER; DRUG INTERACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; MIDDLE AGED; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; THIAZINES; THIAZOLES;

EID: 75149148186     PISSN: 00048674     EISSN: 14401614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00048670903393696     Document Type: Letter

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