Recurrent rhabdomyolysis as a manifestation of alcoholic myopathy. Report of a case

Kopyt, N.; Myers, A.R.; Mandel, S.; Shachter, N.

Archives of Internal Medicine 144(4): 821-823

1984


ISSN/ISBN: 0003-9926
PMID: 6712379
Document Number: 224109
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.

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