Got Rhabdo?
It seems that the word "rhabdomyolysis" is popping up more and more in the media lately.
Whether it's pro football players or every day folk doing overly-rigorous boot camp style training, this once seldom heard of condition has almost become common place on internet home pages and on TV.
But what is rhabdomyolysis? What causes it? How do they test for it? What are the symptoms? How do they treat it? And how dangerous is it?
What is it (and how the heck do you pronounce it)? It's is pronounced "r-hab-doe-my-oh-lie-sis". "Myolysis" literally means the disintegration (or degeneration) of muscle tissue, while "rhabdo" means "rod-shaped" and alludes to the fact that there are striations or striping in normal human skeletal muscle.
Rhabdomyolysis is a condition where muscle tissue breaks down and releases myoglobin (an oxygen-carrying pigment found in normal muscle) into the bloodstream. Once in the bloodstream the myoglobin is filtered out through the kidneys. This filtration process can cause kidney damage or even kidney [...]
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