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Rhabdomyolysis associated with alcohol abuse and acute renal failure

Abstract: Rhabdomyolysis is characterised by local or general skeletal muscle necrosis. It is caused ba many clinical conditions and may occur with traumatic crush injury, muscle ischemia (arterial insufficiency, muscle compression, cocaine overdose), heat stroke, malignant hyperthermia, seizures, infections (influenza, Legionella), alcoholism, or metabolic disorders (hypokalemia, hypophosphetemia, myoposphorylase or phosphofructokinase deficiency). Clinical symptoms are muscle pain and muscle weeknes. Labaratory investigations show a rise in serum creatinine phosphokinase and electrolyte disturbance. The most serious complication is acute renal failure: We present a patient with alcoholic lactic acidosis with liver disease. She developed dehydration and acute renal failure after drinking a large volume of lacohol.

acute renal failure; rhabdomyolysis; alcoholism

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