{"title":"Lithium intolerance disproved by blind clinical trial.","authors":"C H Kellner, P P Roy-Byrne, P W Gold","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Two patients, previously labeled lithium \"intolerant,\" tolerated lithium without side effects when it was given on a double-blind basis. Blind medication trials may be clinically useful in some cases for determining the true nature of drug side effects.</p>","PeriodicalId":77808,"journal":{"name":"The Hillside journal of clinical psychiatry","volume":"7 1","pages":"82-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Hillside journal of clinical psychiatry","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Two patients, previously labeled lithium "intolerant," tolerated lithium without side effects when it was given on a double-blind basis. Blind medication trials may be clinically useful in some cases for determining the true nature of drug side effects.