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Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis in patients receiving lithium carbonate
R N Santella1, J M Rimmer, B R MacPherson
1Department of Medicine, University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington 05405.
The American Journal of Medicine
|May 1, 1988
Abstract:
Lithium carbonate is a commonly used psychiatric medication with a number of toxic renal effects, which include nephrotic-range proteinuria. A review of the literature concerning lithium-induced proteinuria is presented and three cases of nephrotic-range proteinuria are described in association with lithium therapy. The pathology in these three cases was focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, a finding not previously described.