A true dialytic urgency: lithium intoxication
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A case of lithium intoxication.
LITHIuM, the lightest metal, has an atomic weight of seven and closely resembles sodium chemically. The ion is toxic and there are no therapeutic uses for lithium salts. Good (1903) quoted investigations of nearly twenty years previously in animals, where intravenous lithium salts depressed the heart's action and caused a fall in blood pressure. The dose of lithium salts necessary to stop the h...
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عنوان ژورنال: Revista Colombiana de Nefrología
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2500-5006,2389-7708
DOI: 10.22265/acnef.0.0.310