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Statins are commonly used drugs in patients with liver and cardiac disease. Statin-induced severe myopathy is a very uncommon presentation and rhabdomyolysis may occur in extreme cases which leads to… Click to show full abstract
Statins are commonly used drugs in patients with liver and cardiac disease. Statin-induced severe myopathy is a very uncommon presentation and rhabdomyolysis may occur in extreme cases which leads to renal failure. Patients with comorbidities like diabetes, hypothyroidism, and liver disease have higher chances of development of statin-induced myopathy. We describe a case of Child's C cirrhosis wherein the patient had acute onset significant muscle weakness and improved on statin discontinuation.
Keywords:
onset significant;
significant muscle;
acute onset;
muscle weakness
Journal Title: Journal of clinical and experimental hepatology
Year Published: 2017
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Journal Title: Journal of clinical and experimental hepatology
Year Published: 2017
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