Abstract:Magnesium ions are implicated in brain functioning. The disruption of brain metabolism subsequent to a perinatal hypoxic-ischaemic insult may be reflected by plasma magnesium. Infants at 36 weeks after birth or later with neonatal encephalopathy and who were admitted to our neonatal unit from 2011 to 2019 were retrospectively included. The kinetics of plasma magnesium were investigated for the first 72 h of life and correlated to the Barkovich MRI score. Among the 125 infants who met the inclusion criteria, 45… Show more
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