Hypermagnesemia induced by massive cathartic ingestion in an elderly woman without pre-existing renal dysfunction

Internal Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 448-452

  Kontani, Makoto ^a   Hara, Akinori ^a,b   Ohta, Shinji ^a   Ikeda, Takayuki ^a  

^a Tsuruga City Hospital   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cardiac pacing threshold; Hypotension; Magnesium citrate; Sinus arrest; Temporary atrial pacing

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALBUMIN; AMYLASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CALCIUM; CREATININE; FIBRINOGEN; HEMOGLOBIN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LAXATIVE; MAGCOLOL P; MAGNESIUM; MAGNESIUM CITRATE; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; UREA;

AGED; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; CASE REPORT; COLONOSCOPY; CONSTIPATION; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; HYPERMAGNESEMIA; HYPOPROTEINEMIA; HYPOTENSION; ILEUS; ISCHEMIC COLITIS; KIDNEY FAILURE; LETHARGY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAGNESIUM BLOOD LEVEL; NEUTROPHIL; QT PROLONGATION; SINUS ARREST; SINUS TACHYCARDIA; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; CATHARTICS; CITRIC ACID; CONSTIPATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART BLOCK; HEART RATE; HUMANS; HYPOTENSION; ILEUS; KIDNEY DISEASES; MAGNESIUM; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL;

EID: 21244487456     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.44.448     Document Type: Article

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