A true dialytic urgency: lithium intoxication

• Main Authors: Mariana Montoya Castillo (Author), Tomás Giraldo-Hinestroza (Author), Felipe Osorio Ospina (Author), Diana Carolina Echeverri Díaz (Author), Maria Antonia Rico - Mesa (Author), Carlos Aníbal Restrepo (Author), Juan Simón Rico-Mesa (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Asociación Colombiana de Nefrología e Hipertensión Arterial, 2018-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Lithium carbonate is a drug widely used in Colombia for the treatment of various psychiatric pathologies such as treatment in patients with bipolar affective disorder, however its narrow therapeutic index predisposes to the occurrence of acute poisoning, unlikely to happen but could be fatal. It sho...