Quadriparesis in diabetes due to dyselectrolytemia

A tendency for magnesium deficiency in patients with diabetes mellitus is well established. Hypomagnesemia is commonly associated with hypokalemia and hypocalcemia. Here, we report a case of a 55 yr old woman with diabetes mellitus, presenting with acute onset quadriparesis, paresthesia and muscle c...

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Autores principales: Dasgupta, Arundhati, Saikia, Uma K, Sharma, Dipti, Saikia, Mihir, Choudhury, S Dutta
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Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3063533/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21448411
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author Dasgupta, Arundhati
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description A tendency for magnesium deficiency in patients with diabetes mellitus is well established. Hypomagnesemia is commonly associated with hypokalemia and hypocalcemia. Here, we report a case of a 55 yr old woman with diabetes mellitus, presenting with acute onset quadriparesis, paresthesia and muscle cramps, associated with hypokalemia, hypomagnesemia and hypocalcemia, with total recovery on correction of electrolytes for which no other secondary cause could be ascertained.
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spelling pubmed-30635332011-03-28 Quadriparesis in diabetes due to dyselectrolytemia Dasgupta, Arundhati Saikia, Uma K Sharma, Dipti Saikia, Mihir Choudhury, S Dutta Indian J Endocrinol Metab Case Report A tendency for magnesium deficiency in patients with diabetes mellitus is well established. Hypomagnesemia is commonly associated with hypokalemia and hypocalcemia. Here, we report a case of a 55 yr old woman with diabetes mellitus, presenting with acute onset quadriparesis, paresthesia and muscle cramps, associated with hypokalemia, hypomagnesemia and hypocalcemia, with total recovery on correction of electrolytes for which no other secondary cause could be ascertained. Medknow Publications 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC3063533/ /pubmed/21448411 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Choudhury, S Dutta
Quadriparesis in diabetes due to dyselectrolytemia
title Quadriparesis in diabetes due to dyselectrolytemia
title_full Quadriparesis in diabetes due to dyselectrolytemia
title_fullStr Quadriparesis in diabetes due to dyselectrolytemia
title_full_unstemmed Quadriparesis in diabetes due to dyselectrolytemia
title_short Quadriparesis in diabetes due to dyselectrolytemia
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21448411
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