An interesting case that included visual hallucinations in a patient with severe hypomagnesaemia and hypocalcaemia
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Hypomagnesaemia with Secondary Hypocalcaemia
In 1965, Paunier et al. described a child of 6 weeks who had generalized convulsions and tetany, associated with low serum magnesium and calcium levels. Magnesium therapy stopped the tetany and established a normal serum calcium level. Similar cases were later reported by Salet et al. (1966), Friedman, Hatcher, and Watson (1967), and Skyberg et al. (1967). Most of these authors suggested that t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Case Reports
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1757-790X
DOI: 10.1136/bcr.10.2011.5051