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ArticleActa bio-medica : Atenei Parmensis2021

Severe rhabdomyolysis induced by co-administration of cocaine and heroin in a 45 years old man treated with rosuvastatin: a case report.

Michele Mitaritonno, Mariarosaria Lupo, Ivana Greco, Angela Mazza, Gianfranco Cervellin

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Article in Acta bio-medica : Atenei Parmensis, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Rhabdomyolysis Occurring After Use of Cocaine Contaminated With Fentanyl Causing Bilateral Brachial Plexopathy.Federal practitioner : for the health care professionals of the VA, DoD, and PHS · 2022
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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Michele MitaritonnoAzienda Ospedaliera di Cosenza. mitarim@hotmail.com.
Mariarosaria LupoEmergency Department, "S.S. Annunziata" Hospital, Cosenza, Italy. mitarim@hotmail.com.
Ivana GrecoEmergency Department, "S.S. Annunziata" Hospital, Cosenza, Italy. mitarim@hotmail.com.
Angela MazzaEmergency Department, "S.S. Annunziata" Hospital, Cosenza, Italy. mitarim@hotmail.com.
Gianfranco CervellinAcademy of Emergency Medicine and Care (AcEMC), Pavia, Italy. mitarim@hotmail.com.
Ospedale Annunziata di Cosenza · ITAcademy of Emergency Medicine and Care · ITAzienda Ospedaliera di Cosenza · IT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The term rhabdomyolysis describes a damage involving striated muscle cells or fibers, often complicated by acute kidney injury. This syndrome can have different causes, but it is generally divided into two main categories: traumatic and non-traumatic rhabdomyolysis. Among medical causes, drugs and abuse substances play a pivotal role, being opioids, alcohol, cocaine and other substances of abuse. Among drugs, the case of statins is certainly the best known. Here we describe a paradigmatic case of a man treated with success and good tolerance for years with rosuvastatin, who developed a severe rhabdomyolysis complicated by AKI needing hemodialysis, after the assumption of two substances of abuse (cocaine and heroin). Emergency physicians need to be aware of this syndrome, since it must be clinically suspected in order to ask the Laboratory for appropriate tests. Given that troponins are now widely accepted as the unique biochemical "gold standard" for diagnosing acute coronary syndromes, CK and myoglobin (the "gold standard" tests for diagnosing rhabdomyolysis) have been erased from admission test panels of the vast majority of emergency departments.

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Acute Kidney InjuryCocaineRhabdomyolysisHeroinHumansMaleMiddle AgedRosuvastatin CalciumCocaineHeroinRosuvastatin Calcium

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PMID33944852
PMCPMC8142779
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