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Medical Therapy

In mild cases, withdrawing magnesium suppletion is often sufficient. In more severe cases the following treatments are used:

Definitive treatment of hypermagnesemia requires increasing renal magnesium excretion through:

  • Intravenous diuretics, in the presence of normal renal function
  • Dialysis, when kidney function is impaired and the patient is symptomatic from hypermagnesemia

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