A patient presenting with symptomatic hypomagnesemia caused by metformin-induced diarrhoea: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Metformin is licensed for treatment of diabetes mellitus type 2. This report describes a patient on metformin who developed diarrhoea and symptomatic hypomagnesemia. To the author's knowledge, this is the first report on metformin-induced symptomatic hypomagnesemia. CASE PRESENTAT...

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Autor principal: Svare, Anders
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2783112/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19946527
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-156
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description INTRODUCTION: Metformin is licensed for treatment of diabetes mellitus type 2. This report describes a patient on metformin who developed diarrhoea and symptomatic hypomagnesemia. To the author's knowledge, this is the first report on metformin-induced symptomatic hypomagnesemia. CASE PRESENTATION: The patient was a 57-year old Caucasian male with diabetes mellitus type 2. He had been on metformin for nine years and presented with chronic diarrhoea, spasms, paresthesias, pain, and malaise. Blood tests revealed hypomagnesemia, hypocalcemia, and hypokalemia. CONCLUSION: Drugs associated with diarrhoea may induce malabsorption. If malabsorption is substantial it may result in further symptoms of clinical importance. In some cases potentially life-threatening conditions may occur.
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spelling pubmed-27831122009-11-28 A patient presenting with symptomatic hypomagnesemia caused by metformin-induced diarrhoea: a case report Svare, Anders Cases J Case Report INTRODUCTION: Metformin is licensed for treatment of diabetes mellitus type 2. This report describes a patient on metformin who developed diarrhoea and symptomatic hypomagnesemia. To the author's knowledge, this is the first report on metformin-induced symptomatic hypomagnesemia. CASE PRESENTATION: The patient was a 57-year old Caucasian male with diabetes mellitus type 2. He had been on metformin for nine years and presented with chronic diarrhoea, spasms, paresthesias, pain, and malaise. Blood tests revealed hypomagnesemia, hypocalcemia, and hypokalemia. CONCLUSION: Drugs associated with diarrhoea may induce malabsorption. If malabsorption is substantial it may result in further symptoms of clinical importance. In some cases potentially life-threatening conditions may occur. BioMed Central 2009-10-16 /pmc/articles/PMC2783112/ /pubmed/19946527 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-156 Text en Copyright ©2009 Svare; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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A patient presenting with symptomatic hypomagnesemia caused by metformin-induced diarrhoea: a case report
title A patient presenting with symptomatic hypomagnesemia caused by metformin-induced diarrhoea: a case report
title_full A patient presenting with symptomatic hypomagnesemia caused by metformin-induced diarrhoea: a case report
title_fullStr A patient presenting with symptomatic hypomagnesemia caused by metformin-induced diarrhoea: a case report
title_full_unstemmed A patient presenting with symptomatic hypomagnesemia caused by metformin-induced diarrhoea: a case report
title_short A patient presenting with symptomatic hypomagnesemia caused by metformin-induced diarrhoea: a case report
title_sort patient presenting with symptomatic hypomagnesemia caused by metformin-induced diarrhoea: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2783112/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19946527
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-156
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