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  • Title: Correction of respiratory acidosis and transient hypomagnesemia.
    Author: Kristiansen VB, Larsen J, Nielsen TL, Storm TL.
    Journal: Acta Med Scand; 1985; 218(1):133-5. PubMed ID: 4050547.
    Abstract:
    Four elderly patients with established chronic obstructive airways disease were admitted with a days' to weeks' history of increasing dyspnea. Acute respiratory acidosis was diagnosed and mechanical ventilation instituted. A few hours after initiation of treatment, arterial pH was normal in all patients, but serum magnesium concentrations decreased over the next 1-3 days. Thereafter, a spontaneous normalization was seen. It is suggested that the transient hypomagnesemia is due to correction of the acidosis per se.
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