[88 years old woman with acute muscular weakness and diffuse muscular pain: have you thought about the drugs?].

Praxis (Bern 1994)

Service de Médecine Interne, CHUV, Lausanne.

Published: December 2010

An 88 years old woman was admitted for muscular pain and weakness. She was under a treatment of simvastatin and was recently prescribed clarithromycin for a lung infection. The diagnosis of statin induced rhabdomyolysis by drug interaction was made. The evolution is good with eviction of the statin and aggressive hydratation. This case shows how important it is to know the risks factors and drug interactions predisposing to statin-induced myopathy.

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