Polyneuropathy in lithium intoxication.
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.
Vanhooren
G
G
UZ Gasthuisberg, Department of Neurology, Leuven, Belgium.
Dehaene
I
I
Van Zandycke
M
M
Piessens
F
F
Vandenbergh
V
V
Van Hees
J
J
Lammens
M
M
Carton
H
H
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
D016651:Lithium Carbonate; D008094:Lithium