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| Year : 1999 | Volume
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| Issue : 4 | Page : 368-370 |
Occurrence of Ventricular Ectopics In A Patient with Therapeutic Lithium Level
Sunita Simon Kurpad1, K Srinivasan2, Sanjay Mehrotra3, R Galgali4
1 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, St. John's Medical College Hospital, Bangalore-560 034, India
2 Professor, Department of Psychiatry, St. John's Medical College Hospital, Bangalore-560 034, India
3 Assistant Professor, Department of Cardiology, St. John's Medical College Hospital, Bangalore-560 034, India
4 Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, St. John's Medical College Hospital, Bangalore-560 034, India
Correspondence Address:
Sunita Simon Kurpad
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, St. John's Medical College Hospital, Bangalore-560 034
India
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PMID: 21430813 
A young male with bipolar affective disorder, mania with psychotic features was started on lithium therapy. Four days later, he developed an irregular pulse on a lithium level of 0.45 mmol/L. An ECG showed multiple unifocal ventricular ectopics. The cardiac arrhythmia disappeared when lithium was discountinued.
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