This case report describes rhabdomyolysis following a first-time seizure and reviews its pathophysiology and non-traumatic etiologies.
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Raises awareness for post-seizure rhabdomyolysis monitoring; leaves open incidence and management questions for prospective study.
Rhabdomyolysis literally means striped muscle dissolution, but is usually thought to encompass the clinical and laboratory phenomena associated with skeletal muscle injury and subsequent release of muscle cell contents into the systemic circulation.1 This report describes a patient in whom rhabdomyolysis developed following a first-time seizure and reviews the pathophysiology and non-traumatic etiologies of this syndrome.
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