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Monitoring of Patients in Prophylactic Lithium Treatment

An Assessment Based on Recent Kidney Studies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

P. Vestergaard ,
Mogens Schou  and
Klaus Thomsen
Mogens Schou
Affiliation:
The Psychopharmacology Research Unit, Aarhus University Institute of Psychiatry and The Psychiatric Hospital, DK-8240 Risskov, Denmark
Klaus Thomsen
Affiliation:
The Psychopharmacology Research Unit, Aarhus University Institute of Psychiatry and The Psychiatric Hospital, DK-8240 Risskov, Denmark
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The effect of long-term lithium treatment on the kidneys has generated concern among psychiatrists, and proposals have been made that routine determinations of serum lithium and serum TSH should be supplemented with control of the kidney function through regular determinations of serum creatinine, glomerular filtration rate, and renal concentrating ability, as well as through kidney biopsy in certain circumstances.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 140 , Issue 2 , February 1982 , pp. 185 - 187
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1982 
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