ENDOTOXIN-INDUCED HYPOCALCEMIA RESULTS IN DEFECTIVE CALCIUM MOBILIZATION IN RATS
- 1 February 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Vol. 24 (2) , 143-148
Abstract
Hypocalcemia is common in critically ill patients with sepsis; however, its etiology remains unclear. We have previously reported that hypocalcemia occurs in approximately 20% of patients with gram-negative septicemia. Based upon this finding, we evaluated the effect of endotoxin on calcium homeostasis in laboratory animals. We report here that endotoxin produces a dose-related decrease in circulating ionized calcium levels and impairs calcium mobilization during ethylenebis (oxyethylenenitrilo)-tetraacetic acid infusion. We conclude that endotoxin or its products can cause ionized hypocalcemia during sepsis by impairing calcium mobilization.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
- The Multifactorial Basis for Hypocalcemia During SepsisAnnals of Internal Medicine, 1987
- GLUCAGONS CHRONOTROPIC ACTION IS CALCIUM DEPENDENT1987
- Free Fatty Acids Alter Calcium Binding: A Cause for Misinterpretation of Serum Calcium Values and Hypocalcemia in Critical Illness*Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 1987
- Bacteremic hypocalcemia. A comparison between the calcium levels of bacteremic and nonbacteremic patients with infectionArchives of internal medicine (1960), 1987
- MECHANISM OF CARDIAC DYSFUNCTION IN HEARTS FROM ENDOTOXIN-TREATED RATS1986
- THE EFFECT OF INVIVO ENDOTOXIN ON MYOCARDIAL-FUNCTION INVITRO1986
- Effects of [Na+] and [Ca2+] on the responses to milrinone in rat cardiac preparationsEuropean Journal of Pharmacology, 1986
- Assessment of Calcium Homeostasis in the Critically III Surgical PatientAnnals of Surgery, 1985
- Ionized calcium: The effect of septic shock in the humanJournal of Surgical Research, 1979
- Insensitivity to Digoxin Associated with HypocalcemiaNew England Journal of Medicine, 1977