title: [Hypomagnesemia in patients with chronic alcoholism in the course of alcohol withdrawal syndrome].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To ascertain hypomagnesemia (HM) rate in patients with chronic alcoholism (CA) with alcohol withdrawal syndrome (AWS); correlation between AWS severity and HM rate.
  
  
  METHODS
  Mg in plasm was measured at photometry in 129 CA patients treated in Kaunas Mental Hospital.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Plasma Mg in CA patients with AWS was reduced (< 0.749 mmol/l), normal (0.750-1.250 mmol/l) or high (> 1.251 mmol/l) in 28.7, 65.1 and 6.2% patients, respectively. HM was diagnosed in 42.3% with a severe, 19.1% with a moderate and 20.0% with weak AWS.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  HM in AWS was registered in 28.7% patients. It occurred significantly more frequently (p < 0.05) in patients with a severe AWS. Pathogenetic mechanisms of HM in AWS are described.
authors.forename: V P
authors.initials: VP
authors.lastname: Stasiukinene
authors.forename: V K
authors.initials: VK
authors.lastname: Pilvinis
authors.forename: D I
authors.initials: DI
authors.lastname: Reĭngardene
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000430:Alcohol Withdrawal Delirium / Q000097:blood; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000097:blood*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008274:Magnesium / Q000097:blood*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010783:Photometry; D013375:Substance Withdrawal Syndrome / Q000097:blood*
chemical_list: D008274:Magnesium