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Two Cases of Liver Transplantation With a High Ionized Magnesium to Total Magnesium Ratio.
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- The importance of measuring the levels of ionized magnesium in the blood in critically ill patients.Journal of medical biochemistry · 2025Article
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- Ionized and total magnesium levels and health outcomes in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Correlation of Ionized Magnesium with the Parameters of Oxidative Stress as Potential Biomarkers in Patients with Anxiety and Depression: A Pilot Study.Dose-response : a publication of International Hormesis SocietyArticle
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Abstract
Magnesium (Mg), an important cation, is involved in the activation of enzymes important for life support. The incidence of hypomagnesemia in critically ill patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) is high and has been reported to be a factor in worsening prognosis. Ionized magnesium (iMg) is physiologically active, although total magnesium (tMg) is often used to evaluate the concentration of magnesium because of the limited availability of instruments that can measure iMg. However, the changes in tMg and iMg are not correlated in critically ill patients. We obtained considerable data on the simultaneous measurements of iMg and tMg in two patients with severe liver disease who underwent liver transplantation. In both patients, the iMg/tMg values were high, suggesting the influence of hypoalbuminemia associated with liver dysfunction. Mg correction using tMg as a guide may lead to overdose. Furthermore, when considering the data for each case, the correlation between iMg and tMg was very high, which suggested that the iMg/tMg ratio may be a value unique to each individual or disease. Investigating in a large-scale study the correlation between iMg levels and clinical symptoms and prognosis is necessary in the future.
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