Background: Pre-eclampsia along with its complications seems to be one of the major causes of maternal morbidity and mortality. Despite numerous studies, the etiology of pre-eclampsia has not yet been fully elucidated. According to recent studies changes in the level of blood trace elements can be an adverse event in human and animal pregnancy. The present study determines whether maternal seru...

Magnesium has recently been explored as important mineral for the health of CF patients. The aim was detect the rates of hypomagnesaemia and to compare the serum magnesium of the CF patients treated in a reference center for CF. Methods: It was a retrospective study, survey of patients’ records treated in a reference center for CF. It was included the first dosage of serum magnesium collected f...

BACKGROUND Magnesium plays an essential role in the synthesis and metabolism of vitamin D and magnesium supplementation substantially reversed the resistance to vitamin D treatment in patients with magnesium-dependent vitamin-D-resistant rickets. We hypothesized that dietary magnesium alone, particularly its interaction with vitamin D intake, contributes to serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) l...

The addition of cholesterol and cholic acid to a diet containing 24 mg. percent of magnesium, an amount normally required for young rats, resulted in magnesium deficiency in rats. This was characterized by hyperexcitability, hyperemia of the ears, calcium deposition in the kidney tubules, low serum magnesium levels, and decreased oxidative phosphorylation of heart mitochondria. All these lesion...

The paper discusses the relationship of juvenile dysmenorrhea with connective tissue dysplasia, which biochemical marker is hydroxyproline, and magnesium level in blood serum depending on hormonal profile during the second phase of the menstrual cycle. Study showed that in young woman with dysmenorrhea and phenomena of connective tissue dysplasia hydroxyproline level in urine was increased; it ...

magnesium (mg) deficiency has not usually been considered in clinical practice due to lack of relevant blood tests and because the symptoms are often vague and nonspecific. serum concentrations may not adequately reflect mg status. mg loading test (mlt) can provide infonnation on total body mg stores. we prospectively studied 21 critically ill patients (10 male, 11 female) admitted to the icu, ...

The authors compared the antimanic effects of a verapamil-magnesium oxide (V-M) combination with a verapamil-placebo combination (V-P) in patients pretreated with verapamil. BPRS scores and serum magnesium levels were compared. The V-M combination was found to be significantly more effective than V-P in reducing manic symptoms (P=0.015). Serum magnesium levels were significantly higher in the V...

In an earlier, rather extensive, publication in this journal on the "Functional Pathology of Hyperparathyroidism " (1) no mention wasmade of magnesium metabolism. Data have now been collected permitting a contribution to this phase of the subject. The methods of study were the same as described in the previous paper (1). Magnesium determinations were made by the procedure outlined by Briggs (2)...

Evidence has accumulated that aldosterone plays an important part in the regulation of magnesium metabolism in experimental animals. There is, however, little information concerning the effect of aldosterone on the metabolism of magnesium in man. Mader and Iseri (1955) and Milne, Muehrcke, and Aird (1957) reported a single case of primary aldosteronism, with tetany and paralysis, in which low s...