Journal of Emergency Practice and Trauma

Heart attack or rhabdomyolysis?

Document Type : Case Report

Authors

Mustafa Bolatkale 1
Muhittin İşsever 1
Ulaş Karaoğlu 1
Ahmet Cagdas Acara 2
Mehtap Bulut 2

1 Department of Emergency Medicine, Medipol University Hospital, İstanbul, Turkey

2 Department of Emergency Medicine, Gaziemir State Hospital, Izmir, Turkey

https://doi.org/10.15171/jept.2017.02
Abstract
 Statins are commonly used drugs in the treatment of hyperlipidemia (HL), despite some undesirable side effects. These range from mild symptoms such as myopathy, muscle weakness and myalgia to severe muscle weakness associated with chronic myopathy and acute renal failure (ARF) as a result of rhabdomyolysis. The most serious and deadly side effect of statins is rhabdomyolysis. The case presented here is of a patient with rhabdomyolysis due to treatment with the antihyperlipidemic drug, atorvastatin.

Keywords

Rhabdomyolysis
Atorvastatin
Heart attack
Statin
Subjects
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Journal of Emergency Practice and Trauma
Volume 4, Issue 1
January 2018
Pages 51-52

  • Receive Date 09 November 2016
  • Revise Date 21 January 2017
  • Accept Date 21 January 2017

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