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Potassium replacement associated with the development of tetany in a patient with hypomagnesaemia
1Department of Medicine B, Lady Davis Carmel Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
Magnesium Research
|March 1, 1993
Abstract:
A case of hypomagnesaemia secondary to cisplatin therapy and diarrhoea had concomitant hypokalaemia. Increasing the serum potassium level from 2.8 to 3.4 mmol/litre by potassium supplementation induced tetany. Hypokalaemia in the face of hypomagnesaemia may have a membrane-stabilizing effect and preserve excitability.