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Lithium: serum levels, renal effects, and dosing strategies
1University of California, Neuropsychiatric Institute and Hospital, Los Angeles 90024-1759.
Community Mental Health Journal
|August 1, 1992
Abstract:
Lithium prescribing practices have changed over the course of its forty years of use in psychiatric patients. Currently there are controversies as to clinically effective serum levels, dosing strategies, and effects of lithium on renal functioning. These issues are discussed, and recommendations are offered for effective management of the patient taking lithium.