A Rare Cause of Acute Renal Failure: Fenofibrate-Induced Rhabdomyolysis

Autor: Ferhat Icme, Tugba Temrel, Havva Sahin Kavakli, Yucel Yuzbasioglu, Gulhan Kurtoglu Celik, Zeynep Saral Ozturk
Jazyk: English<br />Turkish
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: Çukurova Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Dergisi, Vol 38, Iss 4, Pp 800-804 (2013)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 0250-5150
Popis: Fibrates are derivative of fibric acid and broad spectrum drugs which are commonly used in the treatment of dyslipidemia and hypertriglyceridemia. Side effects are often related with striated muscles, kidney and liver. Rhabdomyolysis developing with striated muscle destruction is potentially the most lethal of these side effects. Although several case reports of rhabdomyolysis have been reported due to the combination of statin and fenofibrate, fenofibrate alone rarely causes rhabdomyolysis. The purposes of this paper are to present a patient whom we diagnosed with acute renal injury due to use of fenofibrate in order to emphasize the importance of questioning drugs which have been used, and to review management of rhabdomyolysis due to fenofibrate use. [Cukurova Med J 2013; 38(4.000): 800-804]
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