Creutzfeld-Jacob like syndrome due to lithium toxicity.
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A Creutzfeldt-Jakob like syndrome due to lithium toxicity.
Two patients with lithium toxicity presented with a neurological syndrome suggesting a diagnosis of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. In both cases, the initial EEG was consistent with this diagnosis. Neither patient had permanent neurological sequelae and the EEG returned to normal. A careful drug history should be taken in any patient who presents with a rapidly progressive dementia even when the EE...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
سال: 1989
ISSN: 0022-3050
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.52.2.291