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Toxicity resulting from lithium augmentation of antidepressant treatment in elderly patients
L S Austin1, G W Arana, J A Melvin
1Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston 29464.
The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
|August 1, 1990
Abstract:
Lithium augmentation of antidepressant treatment is a commonly used strategy for treatment-resistant cases of depression. Two cases are described in which significant neurotoxicity developed in elderly patients despite therapeutic doses of antidepressant and lithium.