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Severe Memory Impairment with Acute Overdose Lithium Toxicity

A Case Report

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Shekhar Saxena  and
P. Mallikarjuna
P. Mallikarjuna
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, All-India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, 110029, India
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Abstract

This report describes a young patient with acute overdose lithium toxicity, who developed severe memory impairment in spite of treatment with haemodialysis. His memory showed gradual recovery, but definite impairment could still be detected 2 months after the overdose.

Type
Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 152 , Issue 6 , June 1988 , pp. 853 - 854
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1988 

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