Rhabdomyolysis in a Child Secondary to Staphylococcus aureus Endocarditis

Rhabdomyolysis secondary to bacterial infection has only rarely been investigated, and there are case reports of the same mainly in adults. This article describes the first reported case of rhabdomyolysis in a child secondary to Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis. A 12-year-old child presented with...

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Autores principales: Bandi, Srinivas, Chikermane, Ashish
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/PMC2840962/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20300406
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-777X.56250
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description Rhabdomyolysis secondary to bacterial infection has only rarely been investigated, and there are case reports of the same mainly in adults. This article describes the first reported case of rhabdomyolysis in a child secondary to Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis. A 12-year-old child presented with myalgia, pyrexia and dark urine and was found to have infective endocarditis due to S. aureus.
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spelling pubmed-28409622010-03-18 Rhabdomyolysis in a Child Secondary to Staphylococcus aureus Endocarditis Bandi, Srinivas Chikermane, Ashish J Glob Infect Dis Case Report Rhabdomyolysis secondary to bacterial infection has only rarely been investigated, and there are case reports of the same mainly in adults. This article describes the first reported case of rhabdomyolysis in a child secondary to Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis. A 12-year-old child presented with myalgia, pyrexia and dark urine and was found to have infective endocarditis due to S. aureus. Medknow Publications 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC2840962/ /pubmed/20300406 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-777X.56250 Text en © Journal of Global Infectious Diseases 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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Rhabdomyolysis in a Child Secondary to Staphylococcus aureus Endocarditis
title Rhabdomyolysis in a Child Secondary to Staphylococcus aureus Endocarditis
title_full Rhabdomyolysis in a Child Secondary to Staphylococcus aureus Endocarditis
title_fullStr Rhabdomyolysis in a Child Secondary to Staphylococcus aureus Endocarditis
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title_short Rhabdomyolysis in a Child Secondary to Staphylococcus aureus Endocarditis
title_sort rhabdomyolysis in a child secondary to staphylococcus aureus endocarditis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2840962/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20300406
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