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​Symptoms and Signs – Differential Diagnosis of Rhabdomyolysis, Causes
• Alcoholism
• Compartment syndrome
• Drug induced (statins; combination of statins with fibrates or erythromycin; simvastatin and amiodarone; amphetamines, haloperidol)
• Electrical injury
• Exertion (exercise induced)
• Extensive surgical (spinal) dissection, bariatric surgery
• Hypothyroidism
• Hypovolemia and urinary acidification are important precipitating causes in the development of acute renal failure.
• Infectious and inflammatory myositis
• Limb ischemia
• Malignant hyperthermia
• Metabolic myopathies
• Multiple trauma
• Prolonged static positioning during surgery
• Reperfusion after revascularization procedures for ischemia
• Seizures
• Sickle cell trait is a predisposing condition.
• Tourniquet ischemia
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