Medizinische Universität Graz Austria/Österreich - Forschungsportal - Medical University of Graz
Gewählte Publikation:
Bacher, H; Mischinger, HJ; Supancic, A; Leitner, G; Porta, S.
Dopamine Infusion Following Liver Surgery Prevents Hypomagnesemia
MAGNESIUM, BULL 1998 20: 49-50.
Web of Science
- Führende Autor*innen der Med Uni Graz
- Bacher Heinz
- Porta Sepp
- Co-Autor*innen der Med Uni Graz
- Leitner Gerhard
- Mischinger Hans-Jörg
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- Abstract:
- The study group comprised 30 patients requiring liver surgery, mainly anatomical and nonanatomical segmentectomies, left lateral segmentectomies, as well as light and left lobectomies. Following surgery, 15 were randomized to a low-dose dopamine infusion (2 mu g/kg/min) for 5 consecutive days. In spite of continuous infusion, free dopamine serum values were observed to fall dramatically, beginning already on the first postoperative day. However, serum magnesium and calcium levels were clearly affected by the dopamine infusion throughout the entire period of treatment. in that dopamine prevented serum magnesium from falling to hypomagnesemic values and also significantly accelerated the normalization of calcium levels.