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Whole blood ionized magnesium: age-related differences in normal values and clinical implications of ionized hypomagnesemia in patients undergoing surgery.

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1 Whole blood ionized magnesium: age-related differences in normal values and clinical implications of ionized hypomagnesemia in patients undergoing surgery for congenital cardiac disease  Ricardo Munoz, MDa,c, Peter C. Laussen, MBBSa,b,c,d, Guillermo Palacio, MDa,c, Lynne Zienko, BSb, Gary Piercey, BSa, David L. Wessel, MDa,b,c,d  The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery  Volume 119, Issue 5, Pages (May 2000) DOI: /S (00) Copyright © 2000 American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions

2 Fig. 1 Scatter plot of IMg versus age for the control group. Vertical lines indicate age categories. Scatter of IMg levels between newborns and infants is shown in the inset graph . The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery  , DOI: ( /S (00) ) Copyright © 2000 American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions

3 Fig. 2 Reference values (± 2 SDs of the log transformation) for whole blood ionized Mg concentrations by age group. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery  , DOI: ( /S (00) ) Copyright © 2000 American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions

4 Fig. 3 The prevalence of hypomagnesemia in neonates and patients older than 1 month during the perioperative period. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery  , DOI: ( /S (00) ) Copyright © 2000 American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions


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