[Study of magnesium levels in the blood and urine in acute pancreatitis].

The magnesium concentration in the body fluids has been determined in 39 patients with mild acute pancreatitis having no ethanol etiology. The results obtained have been compared with that in 30 healthy blood donors. The normal magnesium concentration in the blood plasma has been stated during the first day of treatment in the patients studied. During the treatment the magnesium concentration in the blood plasma showed only minor fluctuations and increased slightly only in the fifth day of the disease. The magnesium concentration in erythrocytes of the patients studied was slightly, not significantly, elevated and did not change during the subsequent days of treatment. The magnesium excretion in the urine increased during the fifth days of the disease.