Influenza A pneumonia with rhabdomyolysis

Influenza A pneumonia accounts for a significant number of the community-ac quired pneumonias in the United States. While myalgia is a common complaint in influenza A infection, few cases of rhabdomyolysis associated with this virus have been described. Although it has been recently recognized that r habdomyolysis complicating certain bacterial pneumonias has important progn ostic implications, rhabdomyolysis in the setting of influenza A pneumonia does not appear to carry the same prognostic significance.