Severe Symptomatic Hypermagnesemia Associated with Over-the-Counter Laxatives in a Patient with Renal Failure and Sigmoid Volvulus

Hypermagnesemia is an uncommon but a potentially serious clinical condition. Over-the-counter magnesium containing products are widely used as antacids or laxatives. Although generally well tolerated in patients with normal renal function, their unsupervised use in the elderly can result in severe s...

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Main Authors: Talal Khairi, Syed Amer, Samuel Spitalewitz, Lutfi Alasadi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2014-01-01
Series:Case Reports in Nephrology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/560746
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