横紋筋融解症を頻回に発症した1剖検例

Abstract

A sixty-year-old male was admitted to our hospital because of myalgia. He had been admitted to our hospital four times due to similar myalgia episodes after flu -like symptoms. The diagnosis of rhabdomyolysis was made by laboratory data which showed severe elevation in serum level of creatine kinase and myoglobin. On the fourth hospital day, he died from heart failure following acute renal failure, although hemodialysis had been started. Autopsy was performed and revealed myolysis, but no other evidence to confirm the mechanism of rhabdomyolysis in the present case. Repetitive myolysis episodes could also occur in patients with rhabdomyolysis.