title: Polyneuropathy in lithium intoxication.
abstract: Two patients developed acute sensorimotor polyneuropathy after intoxication with lithium carbonate. Nerve conduction studies, electromyography, and sural nerve biopsy proved it to be an axonal neuropathy. Recovery of muscle strength, reflexes, and sensory function started weeks after discontinuation of lithium therapy. One patient fully recovered within a year. In the literature we found nine other cases of lithium polyneuropathy.
authors.affiliation: UZ Gasthuisberg, Department of Neurology, Leuven, Belgium.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Vanhooren
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Dehaene
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Van Zandycke
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Piessens
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Vandenbergh
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Van Hees
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lammens
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Carton
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004576:Electromyography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008094:Lithium / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000506:poisoning*; D016651:Lithium Carbonate; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009431:Neural Conduction / Q000502:physiology; D010523:Peripheral Nervous System Diseases / Q000139:chemically induced* / Q000503:physiopathology
chemical_list: D016651:Lithium Carbonate; D008094:Lithium