Open AccessLithium overdose: Early hemodialysis is the key!
Author(s) -
Sachin S. Goel,
Prashant Nasa,
Ankur Gupta,
Rajiva Gupta,
Saurabh Taneja
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
saudi journal of kidney diseases and transplantation/našrat amraḍ wa zira'aẗ al-kulaẗ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.268
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 2320-3838
pISSN - 1319-2442
DOI - 10.4103/1319-2442.148758
Subject(s) - medicine , hemodialysis , lithium (medication) , intensive care medicine , encephalopathy , toxic encephalopathy , chronic renal failure , emergency medicine , pediatrics
A 65-year-old gentleman was referred to our hospital with encephalopathy and renal failure. His medications included lithium for the treatment of bipolar disorder. The clinical examination and the laboratory investigations that followed revealed findings classical of lithium overdose. The patient was successfully managed and discharged from the hospital on Day 9 of admission. Clinicians should be aware of this rather unusual and relatively rare differential cause of acute on chronic renal failure with encephalopathy.