Open AccessLithium-induced minimal change disease and acute kidney injury
Author(s) -
Parul Tandon,
Natalie Wong,
Jeffrey Zaltzman
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
north american journal of medical sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2250-1541
pISSN - 1947-2714
DOI - 10.4103/1947-2714.161252
Subject(s) - medicine , acute kidney injury , lithium (medication) , intensive care medicine , pathology , bioinformatics , biology
Lithium carbonate is a psychiatric medication commonly used in the treatment of bipolar disorder. It has been implicated in inducing nephrogenic diabetes inspidus, chronic tubulointerstitial nephropathy, and acute tubular necrosis. We describe a case of lithium-induced minimal change disease (MCD) and acute kidney injury (AKI).