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Magnesium intoxication: an uncommon cause of prolonged curarization.
A 30-year-old primigravid patient, 34 weeks pregnant, was admitted to hospital with severe oedema of the face and feet and an arterial pressure of 170/110 mm Hg. She had gross albuminuria. Her weight was 88.4 kg, having increased by 3.5 kg in the preceding 2 weeks. Preedampsia was diagnosed and she was treated with: rest in bed, diazepam 10 mg i.m. 6-hourly, and magnesium sulphate 5 g i.m. foll...
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O c t O b e r 2 0 1 3 , v O l . 7 1 , n O 7 © Van Zuiden Communications B.V. All rights reserved. Dear Editor, We want to draw attention to the important role of the parathyroid glands in maintaining normocalcaemia. A 50-year-old woman with known hypoparathyroidism secondary to Riedel’s thyroiditis initially presented with severe hypercalcaemia and acute renal failure luxated by a gastroenterit...
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Although hypercalcaemia is often encountered during the course of malignant disease, hypocalcaemia appears to be rather rare. We describe a 37-year-old patient with metastatic carcinoma of the breast, who developed extreme hypocalcaemia (as low as 0.75 mmol calcium per litre) after chemotherapy. This is caused by a combination of hungry-bone syndrome and an insufficient parathyroid response. Th...
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474 February 2014 P OSTOPERATIVE residual curarization is common after the use of muscle relaxants and may compromise patient outcome after general anesthesia.1–3 The incidence of postoperative residual curarization can be reduced by adequate neuromuscular block reversal and quantitative neuromuscular monitoring.4,5 However, in patients with severe pathologies of the peripheral nervous system, ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Anaesthesia
سال: 1969
ISSN: 0007-0912
DOI: 10.1093/bja/41.12.1091