[A 78-year-old female patient with dizziness, apraxia and seizure under proton pump inhibitor therapy]

Internist (Berl). 2014 Feb;55(2):199-205. doi: 10.1007/s00108-013-3419-0.
[Article in German]

Abstract

We report about a female patient with severe hypomagnesemia under therapy with proton pump inhibitors (PPI) who presented with a cerebral seizure. Chronic use of PPIs can cause hypomagnesemia. Because of mostly unspecific symptoms which become symptomatic only with severe deficiency, the disease pattern is underdiagnosed. Hypomagnesemia is currently coming increasingly more to the forefront of medical literature.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Apraxias / chemically induced*
  • Apraxias / prevention & control
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Dizziness / chemically induced*
  • Dizziness / prevention & control
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Hypercalciuria / chemically induced*
  • Hypercalciuria / diagnosis*
  • Hypercalciuria / prevention & control
  • Nephrocalcinosis / chemically induced*
  • Nephrocalcinosis / diagnosis*
  • Nephrocalcinosis / prevention & control
  • Proton Pump Inhibitors / adverse effects*
  • Renal Tubular Transport, Inborn Errors / chemically induced*
  • Renal Tubular Transport, Inborn Errors / diagnosis*
  • Renal Tubular Transport, Inborn Errors / prevention & control
  • Seizures / chemically induced*
  • Seizures / prevention & control

Substances

  • Proton Pump Inhibitors

Supplementary concepts

  • Hypomagnesemia primary