Annals of intensive care
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Annals of intensive care · Mar 2013
An observational study on rhabdomyolysis in the intensive care unit. Exploring its risk factors and main complication: acute kidney injury.
Because neither the incidence and risk factors for rhabdomyolysis in the ICU nor the dynamics of its main complication, i.e., rhabdomyolysis-induced acute kidney injury (AKI) are well known, we retrospectively studied a large population of adult ICU patients (n = 1,769). ⋯ Because it also has extrarenal elimination kinetics, our data suggest that measuring myoglobin in patients at risk for rhabdomyolysis in the ICU may be useful.