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Calcium Carbonate (Tums)-Associated Milk-Alkali Syndrome as a Cause of Altered Mental Status in the Emergency Department: A Case Report

2023-07-13

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<title>Abstract</title> <p><bold>Background:</bold> Milk-alkali syndrome (MAS) resulting in hypercalcemic crisis represents a life-threatening medical emergency in the setting of excessive calcium and absorbable alkali ingestion. While an uncommon cause of altered mental status and acute renal failure in the emergency department, emergency medicine clinicians should be aware of this syndrome due to significant mo...

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Literature Corpus work: 18acdf97-6e54-5d54-b57c-a0b1cf036d95
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3164759/v1

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