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| Id: | 15934
| | Author: | Ross, Sister Hilary. | | Title: | Magnesium metabolism in leprosy.
| | Source: | Int. J. Lepr;24(3):280-283, July-Sept. 1956. tab.
| | Abstract: | Serum magnesium determinations were performed in 177 cases of leprosy, of which 156 were of the lepromatous and 21 of the tuberculoid type. As controls, 27 nonpatients were similarly examined. Of the 177 cases, 132 (75.2%) showed magnesium levels within the normal range. Significantly low concentrations were found in 27 llepromatous cases and 1 tuberculoid case which were bacteriologically positive. Of the 28 cases with low levels, 8 had a clinical diagnosis of amyloid nephrosis and one had diabetes. Slightly elevated levels were seen in 16 lepromatous cases and 1 tuberculoid case. Of this latter group, 6 had a clinical diagnosis of amyloid nephrosis. Leprosy per se does not appear to affect magnesium metabolism. In the series studied, bacteriologically-positive lepromatous cases complicated with amyloid nephrosis tended to show abnormal elevation or depletion of serum magnesium; in 3 of the 14 cases with the tuberculoid condition zero levels were recorded. (AU).
| | Descriptors: | HANSENIASE
HANSENIASE/clas
HANSENIASE/diag
HANSENIASE/metab
MAGNESIO/admin
| | Electronic Medium: | http://www.ilsl.br
| | Location: | BR191.1 |
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