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Eleven cases (5 F + 6 M; mean age 48.0 years) of acute noninflammatory renal failure (ANRF) in the course of rhabdomyolysis (RBM) were treated with hemodialysis in years 1995-1999. The causes of RBM were the following: ischemia of lower limbs after vascular operations (4 cases), exhausting exercise with rapid body cooling (3 cases), multiorgan failure after traffic accident, acute myositis (1 case), status epilepticus (1 case), rapid clinical course of viral infection (1 case). It was necessary to perform from 1 to 13 hemodialyses in every patient. In nine cases, complete normalization of renal function during 5 to 30 days of therapy was achieved. Two patients died due to multiorgan complications after vascular operations despite effective dialysis therapy. The following correlation were found: positive between initial values of creatine phosphokinase (CPK) activity and creatinine and uric acid concentrations in the blood and negative correlation between CPK and serum calcium concentrations. The higher initial values of CPK activity were observed the more hemodialysis procedures were necessary and the longer time was needed to normalize renal function. On the base of initial, limited up to now, own results it seems that hemodialysis in ANRF in the course of RBM should be started immediately in cases with high activity of CPK in the blood (above 10,000 U/L).
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PMID:[Acute kidney failure in the course of rhabdomyolysis with hemodialysis in personal material from 1995-1999]. 1125 48

We report the first well-documented case of unilateral orbital myositis in an 8-month-old boy with life-threatening pandemic H1N1 infection. He presented with status epilepticus and hemodynamic failure associated with unusual right orbital myositis and acute rhabdomyolysis. Because of severe myolysis, metabolic screening was performed to exclude metabolic and genetic etiologies. After corticosteroid administration and symptomatic support, the disease evolution was favorable, without sequelae at hospital discharge. H1N1 influenza infection may be associated with multiple organ failure, and complicated by unusual muscle injury. The presence of intense myolysis should alert practitioners to potential metabolic and genetic etiologies.
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PMID:Unusual muscular injury in an infant with severe H1N1 infection. 2270 18