ea0019p53 | Clinical practice/governance and case reports | SFEBES2009
Ballav C
, Brain H
, McLaren A
A 64-year-old woman who had been on Lithium 600 mg/day for 6 years for affective neurosis, presented in 2005 with acute confusion associated with a serum calcium concentration of 3.02 mmol/ which improved with rehydration. She was followed-up in outpatients and diagnosed with Lithium-associated hypercalcaemia likely to be secondary to parathyroid hyperplasia. Results showed a corrected calcium of 2.74 mmol/l (2.12.55), phosphate 1.00 mmol/l (0.741.52), ...