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Severe hypomagnesemia associated with pentamidine therapy
J D Gradon1, L Fricchione, D Sepkowitz
1Divisions of Infectious Diseases, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York 11219.
Reviews of Infectious Diseases
|May 1, 1991
Abstract:
A case of severe hypomagnesemia in a patient with AIDS that manifested as changes in mental status is presented. The hypomagnesemia was due to renal wasting of magnesium, most probably caused by pentamidine-induced renal tubular injury. This entity has been reported once before and should be considered in the differential diagnosis of altered mental status in patients with AIDS.