Hugo Tiv , Antoine Vandelaer , Pierre Delanaye , Florence Forte , Antoine Bouquegneau
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Abstract
We describe here the case of a 54-year-old bipolar woman, followed in psychiatry and treated with lithium and a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (escitalopram) and lamotrigine, presenting a lithium poisoning with an altered state of consciousness caused by a supposed mismanagement of her treatment. Lithium poisoning was suggested based on neurological clinical features, but the blood test brought out a lithium concentration within the therapeutic values at 1,2 mmol/L (N: 0,6–1,2 mmol/L). The classic biological complications related to lithium poisoning (hypercalcemia, diabetes insipidus) confirmed the diagnosis. The patient has been transferred to our nephrology department where she got two hemodialysis sessions conducting to clinical and biological improvement, confirming the diagnosis of lithium poisoning despite the normal blood levels. Later, she was transferred to the psychiatry department for follow-up and for treatment adjustment.
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Organe d''expression de la Société de Néphrologie, de la Société Francophone de Dialyse et de la Société de Néphrologie Pédiatrique, Néphrologie et Thérapeutique a pour vocation de publier des textes en français dans le domaine de la Néphrologie, qu''il s''agisse d''actualisation des connaissances, de recommandations de bonne pratique clinique, de publications originales, ou d''informations sur la vie des trois sociétés fondatrices. La variété des thèmes abordés reflète la richesse de la Néphrologie, qu''il s''agisse d''aspects fondamentaux issus de la physiologie, de l''immunologie, de l''anatomo-pathologie, ou de la génétique, ou de sujets de néphrologie clinique, notamment ceux en rapport avec les thérapeutiques néphrologiques, transplantation, hémodialyse et dialyse péritonéale.