TY  - JOUR
T1  - LIquid protein diets and electrolyte deficiency
AU  - Moore MJ
Y1  - 1979/04/06
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1979.03290400024013
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 1464
EP  - 1464
VL  - 241
IS  - 14
N2  - To the Editor.— 
    The Journal had two articles (240:115, 1978; 240:120, 1978) and an editorial (240:144, 1978) referring to patients who followed 300-calorie, protein hydrolysate diets and experienced remarkably similar illnesses: syncopal episodes, hypotension, prolonged Q-T interval, and low QRS voltage. In addition, three of the four died of arrhythmias. The hospital's normal values were not listed for potassium and magnesium, but Singh et al (240:115, 1978) mentioned that the electrolyte levels were marginally depressed.Comment was made that one patient received magnesium orally while in an intensive care unit. Another received one ampul of magnesium and died 2 1/2 days later without receiving any more. This patient had also taken a parenteral-mineral preparation containing magnesium, which can vary from 0.15 to 100 mg, depending on the particular one selected. There was no explanation for the omission of the milliequivalents of these items, but it is unlikely that the patients
SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1979.03290400024013
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1979.03290400024013
ER  -