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The potential use of adjunctive intraerythrocyte (RBC) lithium levels in detecting serious impending neurotoxicity in the elderly: Two case reports

✍ Scribed by Dr Jeffrey R. Foster; Michael Silver; Istvan J. E. Boksay

Book ID
102226601
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1990
Tongue
English
Weight
424 KB
Volume
5
Category
Article
ISSN
0885-6230

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The lithium literature indicates that geriatric psychiatric patients are particularly at risk for developing serious neurotoxic side‐effects. There is currently no reliable method for predicting which patients are at heightened risk for this adverse development. There is evidence that the adjunctive monitoring of intra‐erythrocyte (RBC) lithium levels may offer early indications that such toxicity is impending. Applications of such measurements are shown in two case reports which offer preliminary support for the value of RBC levels.

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## Abstract The elderly are at high risk to develop neurotoxicity in the course of lithium therapy. This is especially true for patients with neurologic or cognitive impairments. This may occur even when lithium treatment is modified to include lower doses and lower target blood levels. The literat