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Rhabdomyolysis in Patients Hospitalized With COVID-19 Infection: Five Case Series.
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- CT scan-derived pectoralis muscle parameters are closely associated with COVID-19 outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis.PloS one · 2025Pooled it
- Serum CK-MB, COVID-19 severity and mortality: An updated systematic review and meta-analysis with meta-regression.Advances in medical sciences · 2021Pooled it
- Rhabdomyolysis secondary to COVID-19 infection and vaccination: a review of literature.Frontiers in medicine · 2024Review
- Urea/Creatinine Ratio's Correlation with Creatine Kinase Normalization in Pediatric COVID-19 Patients with Myositis: Evaluating Prognostic and Predictive Value.Infectious disease reports · 2023Article
- COVID-19-Triggered Acute Liver Failure and Rhabdomyolysis: A Case Report and Review of the Literature.Viruses · 2023Review
- Myositis unrelated to the inoculation site after COVID-19 vaccination: a case report.Clinics in shoulder and elbow · 2023Article
- Crosstalk between COVID-19 Infection and Kidney Diseases: A Review on the Metabolomic Approaches.Vaccines · 2023Review
- From Immunogen to COVID-19 vaccines: Prospects for the post-pandemic era.Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie · 2023Review
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- Rhabdomyolysis in Pediatric Patients with SARS-CoV-2 Infection.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Preliminary Guidelines for the Clinical Evaluation and Management of Long COVID.Infection & chemotherapy · 2022Review
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- A Case of Exacerbation of Haloperidol-Induced Rhabdomyolysis Following the Onset of COVID-19.The American journal of case reports · 2022Article
- Clinicopathological Characteristics of Inflammatory Myositis Induced by COVID-19 Vaccine (Pfizer-BioNTech BNT162b2): A Case Report.Journal of Korean medical science · 2022Article
- Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency presenting with rhabdomyolysis in a patient with coronavirus disease 2019 pneumonia: a case report.Journal of medical case reports · 2022Article
- Neuromuscular Complications of SARS-CoV-2 and Other Viral Infections.Frontiers in neurology · 2022Review
- The Musculoskeletal Involvement After Mild to Moderate COVID-19 Infection.Frontiers in physiology · 2022Review
- Discrepancy between Mild Muscle Pathology and Severe Muscular Compromise in COVID-19 Suggests Nonviral Etiologies.Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology · 2021Article
- Increased Creatine Kinase May Predict A Worse COVID-19 Outcome.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
- Adrenal Insufficiency in Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)-Infected Patients without Preexisting Adrenal Diseases: A Systematic Literature Review.International journal of endocrinology · 2021Review
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Abstract
The novel SARS-CoV-2 virus (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) is now known to cause acute respiratory distress, cytokine storm, and coagulopathy. Multiple other manifestations have been published in recent literature. Rhabdomyolysis is a syndrome of muscle damage, with release of intracellular contents into circulation. It is characterized by marked elevations of creatinine kinase levels and myoglobinuria. In this article, we describe a series of 5 cases who were admitted with COVID-19 pneumonia and had severe muscle injury, as demonstrated by significant elevation (>5 times upper limit of normal) of creatinine kinase levels likely secondary to SARS-CoV-2 virus. The median age for these patients was 65 years, and most of them suffered from diabetes and hyperlipidemia. All patients were hypertensive males. Four out of 5 patients had preserved kidney function at baseline and were chronic kidney disease (CKD) stage 2 or better. However, most of them suffered significant kidney injury and at the time of discharge one patient was CKD stage 2 or better, 2 were CKD stage 3 or worse, and 2 patients had renal failure and died due to complications of SARS-CoV-2 infection.
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