How should hypomagnesaemia be investigated and treated?

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 743-746

  Ayuk, John ^a   Gittoes, Neil J L ^a  

^a QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (POTASSIUM SODIUM); EDETIC ACID; HUMAN SERUM ALBUMIN; MAGNESIUM; MAGNESIUM SALT; MAGNESIUM SULFATE; PARATHYROID HORMONE;

APATHY; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; CHVOSTEK SIGN; COMA; CONFUSION; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DILUTION; DISEASE MARKER; DROWSINESS; DRUG FORMULATION; ECG ABNORMALITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION TEST; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; HEART REPOLARIZATION; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HORMONE INHIBITION; HORMONE RESISTANCE; HUMAN; HYPOCALCEMIA; HYPOKALEMIA; HYPOMAGNESEMIA; INFUSION RATE; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAGNESIUM BLOOD LEVEL; MAGNESIUM EXCRETION; MAGNESIUM FRACTIONAL EXCRETION; MAGNESIUM INFUSION TEST; MAGNESIUM URINE LEVEL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NYSTAGMUS; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; QT PROLONGATION; SEIZURE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; T WAVE; TETANY; TREMOR; TROUSSEAU SIGN; U WAVE; URINALYSIS; URINARY EXCRETION; VERTICAL NYSTAGMUS;

AGED; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, ENDOCRINE; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNESIUM; MAGNESIUM DEFICIENCY; METABOLIC DISEASES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINALYSIS;

EID: 80855156751     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2011.04092.x     Document Type: Article

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