[A case of neonatal convulsions caused by transitory normocalcemic primary hypomagnesemia. Clinical considerations].

The Authors present a case of a primitive normocalcemic hypomagnesimy in a four days newborn. She was hospitalized for convulsive disorders at the Maternity Hospital Foggia - Neonatal Pathology Section. Although her birth had been normal and she was in good condition, the four days infant had clonic crises which in a short time became tonic-clonic generalized convulsive crises. We all know that in a four days newborn the appearance of this kind of convulsive crises is rare and dangerous, so we added, at the normal therapies, a therapy based on somministration of magnesium, first by parentheral intravenous injections, then by mouth. Our check up at one, three and five months of life on the newborn showed how she was growing normally without any bodily or neurological abnormality.