Normal serum ionized calcium levels are crucial to many aspects of physiologic stability. Disturbances in ionized calcium are known to occur frequently in critically ill adults, and to be poorly ...

Calcium supports bone density, muscle function, and nerve health, while vitamin D and magnesium enhance its absorption and ...

Key findings 43% of patients were hypocalcemic and 22% hypercalcemic on arriving at hospital. Only 35% had normal calcium levels despite receiving calcium replacement. Patients who received more blood ...

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TOPLINE: Ionized hypocalcemia is seen in at least one in six pediatric patients with major trauma admitted to the emergency department (ED). Researchers performed a meta-analysis of three studies to ...

Oral calcium supplementation was associated with lower survival and a greater need for aortic valve replacement in elderly patients with mild to moderate aortic stenosis, a new study finds. "Our ...

Serum collected from 68 thick-billed parrots (Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha) from 15 institutions was analyzed for ionized Ca (iCa), total Ca (tCa), P, total protein (TP), albumin (Alb), parathyroid ...

IN their recent experiments on hyperventilation Saltzman et al. 1 found no significant changes in the serum calcium, but in the early work on hyperventilation as a cause of tetany, Grant and Goldman 2 ...