Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Lithium carbonate is utilized to manage bipolar disorders as a mood-stabilizing medication, while the intoxication causes tremor, ataxia, confusion, hyperreflexia, myoclonus, dysarthria, and seizures, besides cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, renal and endocrinological symptoms; the syndrome of irreversible lithium-effectuated neurotoxicity (SILENT) means persistent symptoms after the stop of this drug use, with manifestations of brainstem and cerebellar dysfunctions, extrapyramidal disorders, dementia, and some atypical presentations (Bystrzyński et al., 2025)
Institutions: Universidade Católica de Brasília, Universidade de Brasília
Language: English
Subfield: Emergency Medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4414638078