Recurrent rhabdomyolysis as a manifestation of alcoholic myopathy. Report of a case.
A 38-year-old man experienced six severe episodes of rhabdomyolysis and two episodes of pharyngeal muscle weakness superimposed on chronic alcoholic myopathy and complicated by cardiomyopathy. A muscle biopsy specimen demonstrated sharply reduced levels of electrolytes despite normal serum values; presumably, these deficiencies were related to the pathogenesis of the recurrent rhabdomyolysis.
D000328:Adult; D002310:Cardiomyopathy, Alcoholic / Q000150:complications*; D004452:Echocardiography; D004573:Electrolytes / Q000172:deficiency; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000150:complications; D008297:Male; D009132:Muscles / Q000032:analysis; D011015:Pneumonia, Aspiration / Q000150:complications; D012206:Rhabdomyolysis / Q000209:etiology*
D004573:Electrolytes