Acute rhabdomyolysis after atorvastatin and fusidic acid therapy (11)

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 78-

  Wenisch, Christoph ^a   Krause, Robert ^a   Fladerer, Petra ^a   El Menjawi, Ibrahim ^b   Pohanka, Erich ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATORVASTATIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; CREATINE KINASE; FUSIDIC ACID;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GANGRENE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; KIDNEY GRAFT; LEG PAIN; LETTER; MALE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FUSIDIC ACID; HEPTANOIC ACIDS; HUMANS; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL-COA REDUCTASE INHIBITORS; HYPERLIPIDEMIAS; MALE; PYRROLES; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TIBIAL ARTERIES;

EID: 0034725821     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9343(00)00367-3     Document Type: Letter

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