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Evaluation of rhabdomyolysis with muscle-MRI – case report of a 4 year old boy with a mutation in the LPIN1 Gen
M Smitka, G Hahn, A Hübner · Klinische Neurophysiologie · 2010 · Heft 03
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Rhabdomyolysis is a severe clinical syndrome with breakdown of striated muscle. It can be caused by a wide variety of disorders. Most of the cases are caused by physical injury to muscle tissue (e.g. trauma, seizures, crush injury, electrical accidents, excessive excercise). Non-physical causes are found especially in the paediatric population, e.g. infections, inflammation, intoxication or metabolic disorders like McArdles disease, disorders of carnitine palmitoyltransferase I and II, or mitochondriopathies. Approximately 50% of paediatric patients with recurrent episodes of rhabdomyolysis are not caused by any…
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Klinische Neurophysiologie
