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E I Correa

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PubMed1986

Renal function and lithium: a longitudinal study.

Forty lithium-treated manic-depressive patients underwent two renal function assessments 6 to 18 months apart to assess the course of renal function changes associated with lithium therapy. No change in glomerular filtration rate was noted. Although the average 24-hour urine volume increased significantly, large increases occurred in few patients. Most patients had no substantial urine volume change, and a few had decreases. The changes were correlated with serum lithium levels. The results suggest that the majority of patients develop little renal concentrating impairment, while a small proportion of patients become more polyuric with further lithium treatment.

Adult↗
PubMed1985

RBC choline and renal disorders during lithium treatment.

The authors measured RBC choline level, plasma choline level, and renal concentrating ability in 26 lithium-treated patients, seven psychiatric control subjects, and seven normal control subjects. An analysis of variance revealed no significant relationship between renal concentrating ability and either RBC choline level or RBC/plasma choline ratio.

Adult↗
PubMed1984

Depression and anxiety inventories, and the dexamethasone suppression test.

Twenty-one psychiatric inpatients with prominent depressive symptoms underwent dexamethasone suppression tests and assessment with observer-rated and self-rated anxiety, depression, and somatic symptom inventories. This was done to test the hypothesis that anxiety, more than depression, was related to cortisol nonsuppression seen in psychiatric patients including those diagnosed as having major depressive disorders. Nonsuppressors were significantly more depressed but not more anxious on the symptom inventories. In addition, it was noted retrospectively that the depression symptom inventory scores predicted nonsuppression. Several individual items from the symptom scales which correlated with post-dexamethasone cortisol levels were also identified.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1982

The course of delirium due to lithium intoxication.

Nine delirious patients suffering from lithium intoxication were examined with the Mini-Mental State Exam (MMS) to describe the clinical course of the disorder. Serial serum lithium levels were also obtained. Serum lithium levels fell rapidly, but the cognitive impairment associated with the delirium typically persisted for another week or two. Late-developing but self-limiting neuropsychiatric complications occurred in four patients. The basis of the temporal dissociation of serum lithium levels from the clinical manifestations of lithium intoxication remains uncertain.

Adult↗
PubMed1981

Renal glomerular function and long-term lithium therapy.

Recently published studies vary widely in the quantitative assessment of glomerular filtration rate (GFR) in lithium-treated patients. Therefore, the authors tested 99 lithium-treated manic-depressive patients using several techniques to measure GFR. Ten of 86 patients who had no history of renal disease had mildly low creatinine clearance values. Significant correlations, which were not age-related, between the serum creatinine, Cockroft creatinine clearance, and duration of lithium therapy suggest a relationship between chronic lithium therapy and declining GFR. Since serum creatinine alone was insensitive, the authors recommend the use of duplicate classical creatinine clearances confirmed by Cockroft values to monitor GFR during lithium treatment.

Adult↗