RHABDOMYOLYSIS ASSOCIATED WITH MALARIA-TERTIANA IN A PATIENT WITH MYOADENYLATE DEAMINASE DEFICIENCY

Authors
POELS PJE DOLMANS WMV GABREELS FJM
Citation
Pje. Poels et al., RHABDOMYOLYSIS ASSOCIATED WITH MALARIA-TERTIANA IN A PATIENT WITH MYOADENYLATE DEAMINASE DEFICIENCY, Tropical and geographical medicine, 45(2), 1993, pp. 83-86
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Tropical Medicine","Public, Environmental & Occupation Heath
Journal title
Tropical and geographical medicine → ACNP
ISSN journal
00413232
Volume
45
Issue
2
Year of publication
1993
Pages
83 - 86
Database
ISI
SICI code
0041-3232(1993)45:2<83:RAWMIA>2.0.ZU;2-V
Abstract
A male patient presented with malaria tertiana due to Plasmodium vivax . He developed a severe attack of rhabdomyolysis with acute renal fail ure. The patient was treated successfully with chloroquine medication. After complete recovery further muscle study revealed a deficiency of myoadenyl deaminase (MAD). The infection with P. vivax probably has b een the triggering factor in the process of muscle necrosis, because t he patient also had MAD deficiency.