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Primary hypomagnesemia caused by isolated magnesium malabsorption: atypical case in adult
1Third Department of Internal Medicine, Nagoya City University Medical School, Nagoya.
Internal Medicine (Tokyo, Japan)
|May 25, 1999
Abstract:
Isolated magnesium malabsorption is a rare disorder, which bas been described in no more than 30 patients worldwide. Patients with this disorder typically present with convulsion and diarrhea in early infancy. Hypomagnesemia and hypocalcemia were found in a 35-year-old man with muscle cramps, who bad been diagnosed as primary hypoparathyroidism. Oral magnesium therapy corrected the low serum calcium, magnesium and parathyroid hormone levels. We report an atypical case of isolated magnesium malabsorption in an adult.