Dermatomyositis presenting with rhabdomyolysis and acute renal failure; an uncommon manifestation

Rhabdomyolysis and myoglobinuria are a rare complication of dermatomyositis. Such patient can land up in acute renal failure. Recognition of this fact has important therapeutic implications as patients require immunotherapy in addition to the symptomatic treatment for renal failure. We report a case...

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Autores principales: Joshi, Deepika, Kumar, Niraj, Rai, Anand
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2811979/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20151010
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-2327.48853
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description Rhabdomyolysis and myoglobinuria are a rare complication of dermatomyositis. Such patient can land up in acute renal failure. Recognition of this fact has important therapeutic implications as patients require immunotherapy in addition to the symptomatic treatment for renal failure. We report a case of dermatomyositis with evidence of rhabdomyolysis and myoglobinuria presenting with acute renal failure. The patient responded dramatically to corticosteroid therapy.
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spelling pubmed-28119792010-02-11 Dermatomyositis presenting with rhabdomyolysis and acute renal failure; an uncommon manifestation Joshi, Deepika Kumar, Niraj Rai, Anand Ann Indian Acad Neurol Case Report Rhabdomyolysis and myoglobinuria are a rare complication of dermatomyositis. Such patient can land up in acute renal failure. Recognition of this fact has important therapeutic implications as patients require immunotherapy in addition to the symptomatic treatment for renal failure. We report a case of dermatomyositis with evidence of rhabdomyolysis and myoglobinuria presenting with acute renal failure. The patient responded dramatically to corticosteroid therapy. Medknow Publications 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC2811979/ /pubmed/20151010 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-2327.48853 Text en © Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Joshi, Deepika
Kumar, Niraj
Rai, Anand
Dermatomyositis presenting with rhabdomyolysis and acute renal failure; an uncommon manifestation
title Dermatomyositis presenting with rhabdomyolysis and acute renal failure; an uncommon manifestation
title_full Dermatomyositis presenting with rhabdomyolysis and acute renal failure; an uncommon manifestation
title_fullStr Dermatomyositis presenting with rhabdomyolysis and acute renal failure; an uncommon manifestation
title_full_unstemmed Dermatomyositis presenting with rhabdomyolysis and acute renal failure; an uncommon manifestation
title_short Dermatomyositis presenting with rhabdomyolysis and acute renal failure; an uncommon manifestation
title_sort dermatomyositis presenting with rhabdomyolysis and acute renal failure; an uncommon manifestation
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2811979/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20151010
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-2327.48853
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