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Disease rhabdomyolysis
Phenotype C0085655|polymyositis
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PubMedID- 22805732 polymyositis-like syndrome with rhabdomyolysis in association with brucellosis.
PubMedID- 24552185 We report here the first known case of inflammatory polymyositis leading to rhabdomyolysis in a male patient diagnosed with crohn’s ileocolitis.
PubMedID- 24729735 This is because of the overflow excretion of urinary myoglobin and low molecular weight proteins and the altered glomerular permeability induced by either myoglobin or other substances released from muscles.9 rhabdomyolysis rarely develops in patients with polymyositis,10 and about 6% of patients have cpk levels higher than 3,000 iu/l,11 as was found in the present case.

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