Serum levels and lithium compliance

11/30/04

Serum levels and lithium compliance

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Noncompliance to lithium cannot be reliably excluded by the presence of serum levels in the prophylactic range; as some bipolar patients learn to deceive their physicians by taking a loading dose of lithium on the day before blood drawing.

Ref: - Maj, M. (1997) Selection of the initial drug(s) in the treatment of bipolar disorder, depressed phase. In: Mood disorders: systematic medication management. (Ed) Rush, A.J., Basel: Karger.

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