Lithium toxicity precipitated by thyrotoxicosis due to silent thyroiditis: Cardiac arrest, quadriplegia, and coma

Thyroid

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 766-770

  Sato, Yoshinori ^a,b   Taki, Katsumi ^b   Honda, Yuki ^a,b   Takahashi, Shoichiro ^b   Yoshimura, Ashio ^a  

^a SHOWA UNIVERSITY FUJIGAOKA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b Fujiyoshida Municipal Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; CREATININE; GLUCOCORTICOID; IODINE; ISOPRENALINE; LIOTHYRONINE; LITHIUM CARBONATE; PREDNISOLONE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; LITHIUM; TRANQUILIZER;

ADULT; ARTERIAL CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BLOOD SAMPLING; CASE REPORT; COMA; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DEHYDRATION; DIARRHEA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEVER; FLUID THERAPY; FREE LIOTHYRONINE INDEX; FREE THYROXINE INDEX; HEART ARREST; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY TUBULE ABSORPTION; LITHIUM BLOOD LEVEL; LUNG EDEMA; MUSCLE TONE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PACEMAKER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRIPLEGIA; RESUSCITATION; SINUS ARREST; SINUS BRADYCARDIA; TACHYCARDIA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THYROGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROID FUNCTION TEST; THYROIDITIS; THYROTOXICOSIS; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; COMPLICATION; DRUG MONITORING; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SINUS ARREST, CARDIAC; THYROID GLAND; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTIMANIC AGENTS; BIPOLAR DISORDER; COMA; DEHYDRATION; DRUG MONITORING; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; LITHIUM; LITHIUM CARBONATE; MIDDLE AGED; QUADRIPLEGIA; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SINUS ARREST, CARDIAC; THYROID GLAND; THYROIDITIS; THYROTOXICOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84878855387     PISSN: 10507256     EISSN: 15579077     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/thy.2012.0140     Document Type: Article

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