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Ingrid Reimann, MD, PhD
Dr Margarete Fischer-Bosch-Institut für Klinische Pharmakologie Auerbachstrasse 112 7000 Stuttgart 50, West Germany

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1984;41(3):311.

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The most obvious difference between the preliminary data presented by Bendz and Feinberg on one subject and our study is that we monitored sodium intake by administering a diet and sodium excretion by measuring daily 24-hour urinary sodium excretion throughout the study.

None of our volunteers showed an increase in plasma levels of lithium ions or a decrease in lithium ion clearance during aspirin administration. We have, furthermore, recently studied the acute effect of intravenous aspirin (2 g within three hours) in six healthy volunteers in lithium ion (0.6 to 0.8 mEq/L) and sodium (150 mEq/L) steady-state balance. During the relatively short period of aspirin infusion, we neither observed nor expected an increase in plasma lithium ion clearance,¹ confirming our previous observation.

The rate of renal elimination of lithium ions depends critically on sodium balance.² Because the rate of renal elimination of lithium ions is the most . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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