Rhabdo Redux: 'Don't Know Much about History'

摘要

Just as there are 50 ways to leave your lover, there are 50 causes of rhabdomyolysis (16), including eight commonly reported categories of trauma, muscle hypoxia, genetic defects, infections, body temperature changes, metabolic or electrolyte disturbances, drugs or toxins, and exercise (2). When it comes to exertional rhabdomyolysis (ER), however, only one common cause exists: too much, too fast, too soon of an exercise too novel. We have known this for 50 yr, since the outbreaks of the "squat jump syndrome" in U.S. Marine platoons (7). The U.S. military experience also teaches how to prevent ER (3,11,12).