Rapetti, Rachele and Merlotti, Elena and Bellan, Mattia and Schianca, Gian Piero and Pirisi, Mario (2014) Severe Statin-induced Rhabdomyolysis following Cholestatic Hepatitis induced by Amoxicillin-clavulanate. European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 1 (1). pp. 1-4. ISSN 2284-2594
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Abstract
We report the case of an 86-year-old man with a past history of coronary disease admitted to our internal medicine department for severe asthenia and weakness due to rhabdomyolysis. Three days earlier, he had been discharged from a gastroenterology unit with a diagnosis of amoxicillin–clavulanate-induced acute cholestatic hepatitis. A review of his drugs revealed that he had taken atorvastatin 10 mg daily in the previous six years, without clinical or laboratory signs of myopathy. Atorvastatin was therefore stopped, with gradual improvement of the rhabdomyolysis. All concomitant drug therapy needs to be reassessed in elderly patients, especially when they become acutely ill.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Statin myopathy, rhabdomyolysis, statin toxicity |
| Subjects: | 600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate > 610 Medicina e salute (Classificare qui la tecnologia dei servizi medici) > 616 Malattie (classificare qui la Clinica medica, la medicina basata sull'evidenza, la Medicina interna, la Medicina sperimentale) |
| Depositing User: | Chiara D'Arpa |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Sep 2016 15:37 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Sep 2016 15:37 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/14962 |
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