Hypomagnesemia - Etiologies by Mechanism
Decreased GI Uptake
- Poor dietary intake (particularly common in alcoholics)
- Proton-pump inhibitors
- Primary intestinal hypomagnesemia
Excessive GI losses
- Chronic diarrhea / IBD
Renal Loses
- Medications
- Loop and thiazide diuretics
- Amphotericin B
- Aminoglycosides
- Cisplatin
- Calcineurin inhibitors
- Electrolyte abnormalities
- Hypercalcemia
- Hypokalemia
- Osmotic diuresis
- Uncontrolled diabetes
- Post-obstructive diuresis
- Transient renal tubular dysfunction
- Alcohol
- Familial renal Mg wasting syndromes
- Gitelman syndrome
- Genetic defects affecting claudin-16
Miscellaneous Mechanisms
- Pancreatitis
- Hungry bones syndrome
Dr. Eric Strong https://twitter.com/DrEricStrong
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