Hypomagnesemia history and symptoms

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]

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Deficiency of magnesium causes weakness, muscle cramps, cardiac arrhythmia, increased irritability of the nervous system with tremors, athetosis, jerking, nystagmus and an extensor plantar reflex. In addition, there may be confusion, disorientation, hallucinations, depression, epileptic fits, hypertension, tachycardia and tetany.

History and symptoms

Symptoms of hypomagnesemia can be one of the following: ^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]

References

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↑ Cooper HA, Domanski MJ, Rosenberg Y, Norman J, Scott JH, Assmann SF; et al. (2004). “Acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction and prior stroke: an analysis from the Magnesium in Coronaries (MAGIC) trial”. Am Heart J. 148 (6): 1012–9. doi:10.1016/j.ahj.2004.02.017. PMID 15632887.
↑ Pham PC, Pham PM, Pham SV, Miller JM, Pham PT (2007). “Hypomagnesemia in patients with type 2 diabetes”. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2 (2): 366–73. doi:10.2215/CJN.02960906. PMID 17699436.
↑ Levy FL, Adams-Huet B, Pak CY (1995). “Ambulatory evaluation of nephrolithiasis: an update of a 1980 protocol”. Am J Med. 98 (1): 50–9. doi:10.1016/S0002-9343(99)80080-1. PMID 7825619.
↑ Huang CL, Kuo E (2007). “Mechanism of hypokalemia in magnesium deficiency”. J Am Soc Nephrol. 18 (10): 2649–52. doi:10.1681/ASN.2007070792. PMID 17804670.
↑ Ryan MP (1993). “Interrelationships of magnesium and potassium homeostasis”. Miner Electrolyte Metab. 19 (4–5): 290–5. PMID 8264516.

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