A Case of Hypomagnesemia Presenting as New-Onset Seizure

Identifying the etiology of a new-onset seizure can be challenging due to the extraordinarily large number of differential diagnoses. Electrolyte disturbances, through a mechanism of disruption of neurotransmission within the central nervous system, are often implicated as a possible etiology in man...

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Autores principales: Michael, George, George, Kitty
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
Materias:
Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9064401/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35518545
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.23791
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description Identifying the etiology of a new-onset seizure can be challenging due to the extraordinarily large number of differential diagnoses. Electrolyte disturbances, through a mechanism of disruption of neurotransmission within the central nervous system, are often implicated as a possible etiology in many cases of seizures. In this report, we describe the sequence of events related to a 68-year-old patient who suffered from convulsions precipitated by hypomagnesemia and the possible contributors to such a condition.
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spelling pubmed-90644012022-05-04 A Case of Hypomagnesemia Presenting as New-Onset Seizure Michael, George George, Kitty Cureus Emergency Medicine Identifying the etiology of a new-onset seizure can be challenging due to the extraordinarily large number of differential diagnoses. Electrolyte disturbances, through a mechanism of disruption of neurotransmission within the central nervous system, are often implicated as a possible etiology in many cases of seizures. In this report, we describe the sequence of events related to a 68-year-old patient who suffered from convulsions precipitated by hypomagnesemia and the possible contributors to such a condition. Cureus 2022-04-03 /pmc/articles/PMC9064401/ /pubmed/35518545 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.23791 Text en Copyright © 2022, Michael et al. https://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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title_sort case of hypomagnesemia presenting as new-onset seizure
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