A Study of Serum Magnesium Level in Patients with Chronic Renal Failure at Tertiary Care Hospital
Journal Title: International Journal of Contemporary Medical Research - Year 2018, Vol 5, Issue 10
Abstract
Introduction: CKD represents a progressive irreversible decline in the glomerular filtration rate (GFR). A common phenomenon in renal failure is progressive renal function loss irrespective of the underlying cause of the kidney disease. Hypermagnesaemia is often associated with undetected renal impairment and excessive oral administration of magnesium containing drugs (e.g. laxatives or antacids) or with advanced CKD. The present study was conducted to assess serum magnesium levels in cases with chronic renal failure Material and Methods: It was observational study carried out at Tertiary Institute to assess the levels of serum magnesium in chronic renal failure patients. A total of 80 patients were selected by simple random sampling with chronic renal failure. Results: It was shown that majority of patients were male (58.75%). Majority of patients were having hypertension (60%) followed by diabetes mellitus (43.75%). The serum magnesium among patients showed that majority of patients presented with hypermagnesaemia and serum magnesium level was low in patients with dialysis. Conclusion: Serum magnesium is a worthwhile tool in assessing duration of disease, morbidity and mortality in patients with chronic renal failure.
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Hardik Patel, Vivek Redkar, Akshay Kulkarni
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