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Thirteen University of Iowa Football Players HospitalizedMajority of People Recover From Rhabdomyolysis Experts say rhabdomyolysis can occur after extremely When you exercise, the muscles secrete potassium to help can cause kidney damage, rhabdomyolysis rarely leads to death or
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Creatine a Culprit in Oregon Compartment Syndrome Cases?creatine, which has been linked to compartment syndrome , a condition caused by extreme Three of the players had surgery for compartment syndrome , and tests showed those players cause of the unusual cluster of compartment syndrome cases. "I still think it is creatine
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Mystery Illness Strikes 12 High School Football Playersundergo surgery for compartment syndrome , a condition where swelling muscles are compressed by the the swelling of their muscles had readings of over do with coaching." Compartment syndrome is often linked to Creatine
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Severe Swine Flu Can Kill Young, Old Alike
research letter in the same issue of JAMA reports a case of rhabdomyolysis -- a breakdown in muscle tissue -- in a 28-year-old smoked two or three cigarettes a day for the past year. Rhabdomyolysis has been associated with different strains of flu and now
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Statins May Cause Muscle Damage in Some Patients
may cause structural damage to the muscles of people experiencing muscle aches and hinder the body's ability to repair muscles . Muscle cells exposed to increasing market because of a high incidence in rhabdomyolysis , a widespread breakdown of skeletal
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Statin Side Effect Test: Worth the Price?and then restart the drug." In the most severe cases, however, the side effect can lead to a rare condition known as rhabdomyolysis , where the skeletal muscle breaks off and goes into the blood. The result can be kidney failure, though the discomfort
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Excerpt: 'The End of My Addiction'withdrawal. The seizures were so violent that they produced rhabdomyolysis , a breakdown in muscle tissue that is toxic to the kidneys car crash, because my CPKs were extraordinarily high. Rhabdomyolysis explained the urinary catheter and another of the IVs
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Sedative Could Be Deadly in People With Seizures
by the unexplained presence of at least one or more of the following: the blood disorder known as metabolic acidosis; rhabdomyolysis (a muscle disorder); bradycardia (lowered heart rate); and/or cardiac arrest. PRIS occurred in one patients in
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Cancer Drug Gleevec Linked to Muscle Damage
25-year-old woman who developed severe rhabdomyolysis while taking imatinib. Rhabdomyolysis is the breakdown of muscle fibers resulting treatment, the woman experienced symptoms of rhabdomyolysis . After she stopped taking imatinib
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Drugs Approved Under Deadline More Likely to Run Into Trouble Later
exactly one day to the year after the application was submitted, and withdrawn four years later due to reports of death from rhabdomyolysis , a breakdown of muscle fibers. The diabetic drug Rezulin was given priority status, approved before the six-month deadline
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Book Excerpt: 'Report From Ground Zero'
just shut the pain off, but once they got the concrete off me then I really started to feel it. I had severe compartment syndrome , a crushing injury where the body swells up and the blood has nowhere to go. When they touch my leg, I am
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Drug Makers Court Statin Users
three-year period in the United States from rhabdomyolysis , a disorder that causes muscle destruction associated with at least 52 deaths from rhabdomyolysis over the same three-year period largely taken care of the problem of rhabdomyolysis by getting Baycol off the market
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Cholesterol Drug Pulled From Market
The drug's rare side effect, rhabdomyolysis , destroys muscle cells then releases drugs called statins. Experts say rhabdomyolysis is a known side-effect of all statins services at Yale-New Haven Hospital, " rhabdomyolysis was not reported in clinical trials
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Man Bitten at WalmartDoctors say Craig's was a moderate one required six of vials of anti venom he also required surgery to avoid compartment syndrome after swelling threatened to permanently disfigured his hand. And to prevent the pressure from doing so damages
six of vials of anti venom he also required surgery to avoid compartment syndrome after swelling threatened to permanently disfigured his hand. And to prevent the pressure from doing so -- damages nerves or blood flow -
Football Team Lands in Hospitalare convinced they know what happened here it's called compartment syndrome and it occurs when a muscle gets too big for the lining setting can be compared practice from an exercise regime muscles . Are allowed to expand about 20%. Of their size before
the hospital. Doctors are convinced they know what happened here it's called compartment syndrome and it occurs when a muscle gets too big for the lining surrounding causing pressure and pain. Becomes dangerous when the swelling -
Mysterious Illness Strikes Football Teamrushed to the hospital twelve were admitted three had to have emergency surgery. The diagnosis. Something called compartment syndrome . In severe cases muscle tissue in the swells larger than the tissue around it that puts pressure on nerves and
were admitted three had to have emergency surgery. The diagnosis. Something called compartment syndrome . In severe cases -- muscle tissue in the -- swells larger than the tissue around it that puts pressure on nerves and
