Pheochromocytoma crisis is a rare life-threatening event that may appear with a variety of clinical symptoms. We present three cases of life-threatening crisis in which magnesium sulfate was particularly beneficial in controlling symptoms and signs when more conventional forms of therapy had failed. Two patients presented with hypertensive encephalopathy, and the third presented with catecholam...

Background and Aim. Aparallel, randomized, double blinded, placebo-controlled trial study was designed to assess the efficacy of single low dose of intravenous magnesium sulfate on post-total abdominal hysterectomy (TAH) pain relief under balanced general anesthesia. Subject and Methods. Forty women undergoing TAH surgery were assigned to two magnesium sulfate (N = 20) and normal saline (N = 20...

Numerous large clinical studies have evaluated the evidence regarding magnesium sulfate, neuroprotection, and preterm births. The Committee on Obstetric Practice and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine recognize that none of the individual studies found a benefit with regard to their primary outcome. However, the available evidence suggests that magnesium sulfate given before anticipated ea...

in heart failure with ventricular arrhythmias: beneficial effects of magnesium supplementation. J Intern Med 2000;247:78–86. 19. Winters SL, Sachs RG, Curwin JH. Nonsustained polymorphous ventricular tachycardia during amiodarone therapy for atrial fibrillation complicating cardiomyopathy: management with intravenous magnesium sulfate. Chest 1997;111:1454–7. 20. Sarisoy O, Babaouglu K, Tugay S,...

BACKGROUND Treatment of acute asthma is based on rapid reversal of bronchospasm and arresting airway inflammation. There is some evidence that intravenous magnesium can provide additional bronchodilation when given in conjunction with standard bronchodilating agents and corticosteroids. No systematic review of this literature has been completed on this topic. OBJECTIVES To examine the effect ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether in utero exposure to magnesium sulfate is associated with a lower incidence of cranial ultrasonographic abnormalities that predict cerebral palsy in infants who weigh less than 1501 g at birth. DESIGN For a prospective study of the antecedents of cranial ultrasonographic abnormalities, we enrolled infants who weighed 500 to 1500 g when born at five institution...

Background: Intrathecal magnesium sulfate, an NMDA antagonist, has been shown to prolong analgesia and potentiates spinal anesthesia without significant side effects in parturients. This study aimed to explore the hypothesis that adding magnesium sulfate to intrathecal low-dose of bupivacaine and sufentanil can prolong the spinal analgesia in patients with severe pre-eclampsia. Methods: Sixty p...

the 24 maltiparous holstein dairy cows were allocated in a completely randomized design to study the effects of different level and source of sulfur supplement in close-up diets on blood metabolites, colostrums composition and liver performance. the mean body weight of the cows was 687.9 kg and the mean days until expected calving date was 21.8 d. the first treatment (t1) has contained 0.21% su...