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Ionized or Total Magnesium levels, what should we measure in critical ill patients?
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- Serum-negative chronic thyroiditis: an insidious nosographic entity cause of hypothyroidism, goiter and difficult thyroidectomy.Endocrine · 2025Article
- The importance of measuring the levels of ionized magnesium in the blood in critically ill patients.Journal of medical biochemistry · 2025Article
- Dysmagnesemia Incidence in Hospitalized Dogs and Cats: A Retrospective Study.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- Comparative Analysis of Serum Magnesium Ion Levels Using Three Measurement Methods: Spectrophotometry, Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry, and Inductively Coupled Plasma With Optical Emission Spectrophotometry.International journal of analytical chemistry · 2025Article
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- Association of early postoperative serum magnesium with acute kidney injury after cardiac surgery.Renal failure · 2023Article
- Importance of Magnesium Status in COVID-19.Biology · 2023Review
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- Comment on Guerrero-Romero et al. Magnesium-to-Calcium Ratio and Mortality from COVID-19.Nutrients · 2022Article
- Reply to Scarpati, G.; Piazza, O. Comment on "Guerrero-Romero et al. Magnesium-to-Calcium Ratio and Mortality from COVID-19.Nutrients · 2022Article
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- Two Cases of Liver Transplantation With a High Ionized Magnesium to Total Magnesium Ratio.Cureus · 2022Article
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Abstract
Monitoring and measuring magnesium (Mg) values are essential to prevent the development of numerous complications in perioperative medicine and critically ill patients. Although previous studies suggest that measuring free ionized magnesium (iMg) is more useful for estimating Mg status, clinicians currently rely on measurement of total serum magnesium to determine if supplemental magnesium is needed. In this review, we analyzed the recent literature to decide whether it is better to measure ionized serum Mg or total serum Mg when assessing magnesium status, whether iMg predicts clinical outcome, and what are the difficulties in measuring serum iMg levels in intensive care patients and perioperative medicine.
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