Erythrocyte and mononuclear blood cell magnesium concentrations are normal in hypomagnesemic patients with chronic renal magnesium wasting. |
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| Authors: | R J Elin J M Hosseini J R Gill Jr |
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| Institution: | Clinical Pathology Department, Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892. |
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| Abstract: | The purpose of this study was to determine the plasma, erythrocyte, and mononuclear blood cell (MBC) magnesium concentrations in patients with chronic, severe hypomagnesemia due to a chronic magnesium-wasting tubulopathy.Six patients with Bartter's syndrome and five patients with magnesium-wasting tubulopathy were compared with normal subjects. We determined magnesium in plasma, erythrocytes, and MBCs.Patients with chronic magnesium-wasting tubulopathy had a significantly lower plasma magnesium concentration than controls, but erythrocyte magnesium concentration and MBC magnesium concentration and content did not differ significantly between patients and controls.Two disorders with chronic magnesium-wasting tubulopathies are associated with a low plasma magnesium concentration but normal erythrocyte and MBC magnesium. |
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