Rhabdomyolysis in COVID-19: Report of Four Cases

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a global public health emergency. COVID-19 is most well known for affecting the respiratory system, although it can also result in several extrapulmonary manifestations. Limited literature is available regarding rhabdomyolysis in COVID-19. We report four cases...

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Autores principales: Singh, Balraj, Kaur, Parminder, Mechineni, Ashesha, Maroules, Michael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7523746/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33005556
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10686
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description Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a global public health emergency. COVID-19 is most well known for affecting the respiratory system, although it can also result in several extrapulmonary manifestations. Limited literature is available regarding rhabdomyolysis in COVID-19. We report four cases of rhabdomyolysis in COVID-19 patients. High index of suspicion is required for the appropriate clinical scenario to recognize this life-threatening situation so that complications can be avoided
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spelling pubmed-75237462020-09-30 Rhabdomyolysis in COVID-19: Report of Four Cases Singh, Balraj Kaur, Parminder Mechineni, Ashesha Maroules, Michael Cureus Internal Medicine Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a global public health emergency. COVID-19 is most well known for affecting the respiratory system, although it can also result in several extrapulmonary manifestations. Limited literature is available regarding rhabdomyolysis in COVID-19. We report four cases of rhabdomyolysis in COVID-19 patients. High index of suspicion is required for the appropriate clinical scenario to recognize this life-threatening situation so that complications can be avoided Cureus 2020-09-27 /pmc/articles/PMC7523746/ /pubmed/33005556 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10686 Text en Copyright © 2020, Singh et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 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 author and source are credited.
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Rhabdomyolysis in COVID-19: Report of Four Cases
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title_full Rhabdomyolysis in COVID-19: Report of Four Cases
title_fullStr Rhabdomyolysis in COVID-19: Report of Four Cases
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title_short Rhabdomyolysis in COVID-19: Report of Four Cases
title_sort rhabdomyolysis in covid-19: report of four cases
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7523746/
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