| Literature DB >> 27583091 |
Jaouad El Maghraoui1, Nadia Kabbali1, Mohamed Arrayhani1, Tarik Sqalli Houssaini1.
Abstract
We report the case of a 47-years old patient, traited with lithium for manic-depressive psychosis over a period of twenty and admitted to hospital with a disorder of consciousness after suicide attempt with lithium overdose (ingestion of 30 tablets of Téralithe(®) LP 400, delayed action galenic forms corresponding to 12 g of lithium carbonate), clinically improved after three hemodialysis sessions. This study illustrates the therapeutic role of hemodialysis in voluntary intoxications with extended release lithium even a week after the ingestion and the therapeutic insufficiency of a single hemodialysis session.Entities:
Keywords: Manic-depressive psychosis; disorder of consciousness; hemodialysis; lithium intoxication
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Year: 2016 PMID: 27583091 PMCID: PMC4992380 DOI: 10.11604/pamj.2016.24.27.8820
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Pan Afr Med J