The case of an 8-year-old boy complaining easy tiredness, poor exercise tolerance and high CPK blood level is described. diagnosis glutaric aciduria type II was finally made.

Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) are commonly used in ICUs. Here, we report a severe case of rhabdomyolysis associated with omeprazole. A 20-year-old man, who previously had been healthy, visited a hospital with epigastric pain. An upper gastrointestinal endoscopy revealed a duodenal ulcer in an active stage. He was admitted to the hospital and received intravenous omeprazole (20 mg) twice a day. ...

Enzymatic and histological features of muscular disorders associated with primary aldosteronism and glycyrrhizine-induced pseudoaldosteronism were studied. Among 10 patients with primary aldosteronism and 3 patients with pseudoaldosteronism, 5 patients were admitted to our hospital because of muscular weakness. The serum potassium (K) level was 1.86 +/- 0.21 mEq/l in a myopathy group on admissi...

Multiple defibrillations by the automatic implantable cardioverter/defibrillator (AICD) have been reported to result in localized epicardial damage. No data exist, however, regarding whether this damage can be detected in the clinical setting or whether it interferes with the detection of true myocardial infarction. Forty-nine patients who received defibrillations by patch electrodes were studi...

Short-term exposure of mice to low O3 doses, as defined by the product of concentration and exposure time (ct), was observed to induce alterations in two enzyme systems: first, that leading to changes in hepatic reduced ascorbic acid (RAA) content, and second to changes in plasma creatine phosphokinase (CPK) activity. RAA alterations were noticed immediately, 30 min and 120 min after terminatio...

The capability index Cpk for a process, that produces parts with normally distributed characteristic X , is defined as Cpk = min(U −μ, μ−L)/(3σ) = (T − |μ− ν|)/(3σ), where U and L are upper and lower specification limits for X , μ and σ are process mean and standard deviation, and ν = (U + L)/2, T = (U − L)/2. Using a sample X1, . . . , Xn of independent observations from N (μ, σ) Chou et al. (...

Previous studies showed that the Infratonic Stochastic Resonance (SR) therapy increases race performance on standard-bred horses and decreases the risk of inflammation and muscle injury. In the present study we continued investigating the benefits of this therapy on standard-bred racehorses. We expand the research to the analysis of the hyaluronic acid levels and the quality of the synovial flu...

BACKGROUND Rhabdomyolysis (RML) is caused by muscle injury, this may cause kidneys overload and lead to acute renal failure (ARF). The risk factors for RML in bariatric surgery (BS) are operative time (OT) >4 h and high BMI. The frequency of RML in BS varies from 12.9 to 37.8%. This study has the objective of describing the characteristics associated with RML and ARF in BS. METHODS We studied...

Nöroleptik malign sendrom (NMS) antipsikotik ilaç kullanımı sonrasında ortaya çıkabilen ciddi bir klinik tablodur. Antipsikotik kullanan tüm hastalarda dozdan bağımsız olarak gelişme riski bulunsa da etiyolojisi tam aydınlatılamamıştır. Ateş, rijidite, bilinç bulanıklığı, serum kreatin fosfokinaz (CPK) yüksekliği ve otonomik disregülasyon bulguları ile seyretmektedir. Son yıllarda NMS tanı ölçü...

BACKGROUND Rhabdomyolysis is a clinical and biochemical syndrome, which is observed in some patients with acute chemical and/or pharmaceutical poisonings. We aimed to investigate rhabdomyolysis in patients with acute poisonings due to different chemicals, natural toxins or drug overdose. MATERIALS AND METHODS Following approval of the University medical research committee and obtaining inform...