Background In critically ill patients, the most common manifestation of brain dysfunction is
delirium, which is independently associated with higher morbidity and mortality. While …

Abstract Background Altered serum magnesium (Mg) levels in older persons have been
hypothesized to have a role in predicting hospitalization and mortality. Hypomagnesemia …

Background: A specific magnesium level is essential to be maintained to ensure appropriate
neuromuscular excitability and cardiac function; an increase or decrease in its levels usually …

Sixty percent of total-body magnesium is in bone; 20%, within skeletal muscle; and the
remainder, within the heart, liver, and other tissues. One-third of the skeletal magnesium …

Methods This is a cohort prospective study with prognostic research recruiting 150 critically
ill patients in a major tertiary hospital. Blood samples were collected for estimation of serum …

Objective: Hypomagnesemia is one of the common electrolyte disorders found in critically ill
patients. It is often an incidental finding and usually its importance is ignored. This study was …

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Available online http://ccforum.com/supplements/9/S1 Critical Care Volume 9 Suppl 1, 2005 …

Background Many studies found that only hypomagnesemia, but not hypermagnesemia is
linked with increased mortality. However, reports of mortality due to magnesium …

Objective To investigate the incidence of hypomagnesemia and the effect of serum
magnesium levels on the prognosis of critically ill patients in intensive care unit (ICU) …

Methods This is a prospective observational study done among the patients who got
admitted to the Medical ICU at Maharajahs Institute of Medical Sciences (MIMS), Nellimarla …