Tingles, Tetany, and Electrolyte Derangements

We report a patient who presented with anxiety, hyperventilation, perioral paresthesia, and tingling in the fingers associated with hypomagnesemia, hypocalcemia, and hypokalemia. We discuss the possible mechanistic basis for sequence of events that may have led to this presentation.

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Autores principales: Singh, Amardeep, Kaur, Ramandeep, Dass, Bhagwan, Ejaz, Abutaleb
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
Materias:
Family/General Practice
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7255070/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32483505
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7854
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spelling pubmed-72550702020-05-31 Tingles, Tetany, and Electrolyte Derangements Singh, Amardeep Kaur, Ramandeep Dass, Bhagwan Ejaz, Abutaleb Cureus Family/General Practice We report a patient who presented with anxiety, hyperventilation, perioral paresthesia, and tingling in the fingers associated with hypomagnesemia, hypocalcemia, and hypokalemia. We discuss the possible mechanistic basis for sequence of events that may have led to this presentation. Cureus 2020-04-27 /pmc/articles/PMC7255070/ /pubmed/32483505 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7854 Text en Copyright © 2020, Singh et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Singh, Amardeep
Kaur, Ramandeep
Dass, Bhagwan
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Tingles, Tetany, and Electrolyte Derangements
title Tingles, Tetany, and Electrolyte Derangements
title_full Tingles, Tetany, and Electrolyte Derangements
title_fullStr Tingles, Tetany, and Electrolyte Derangements
title_full_unstemmed Tingles, Tetany, and Electrolyte Derangements
title_short Tingles, Tetany, and Electrolyte Derangements
title_sort tingles, tetany, and electrolyte derangements
topic Family/General Practice
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7255070/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32483505
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7854
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