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Serial measurements of serum and urinary magnesium in 16 acute traumatic paraplegic patients revealed a period of increased urinary excretion of magnesium in all, associated in four of them with an elevated serum magnesium, and in two with transient hypomagnesaemia.
In ten other patients showing symptoms suggestive of magnesium deficiency the serum magnesium was within normal limits in eight, and elevated in two.
There is no evidence that magnesium deficiency is responsible for symptoms in paraplegia.
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Broughton, A., Burr, R. Magnesium metabolism following spinal cord injury. Spinal Cord 10, 134–141 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/sc.1972.23
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