Crestor Rhabdomyolysis
Users of the drug Crestor are at risk for developing Rhabdomyolysis.
Rhabdomyolysis is the breakdown of skeletal muscle due to
injury.
The injury can be from physical damage to the muscle, but
significant cases of rhabdomyolysis are more commonly due to high fever or
hyperthermia, metabolic disorders, excessive exertion, convulsions,
choreoathetosis, muscle trauma, flow of electric current through the body or
anoxia of the muscle (e.g. Bywaters' syndrome, a tourniquet left for several
hours, local muscle compression due to comatose states, etc.).
A large
number of drugs may cause rhabdomyolysis through several mechanisms, such as
myotoxicity (for example, animal toxins, antibiotics, statins, alcohol, etc),
circulatory ischemia, hyperpyrexia, long duration muscle rigidity and
others.
Drug-induced rhabdomyolysis is more common nowadays than in the
past, due to the introduction of increasingly more potent drugs into clinical
practice.
Any drug which directly or indirectly impairs the production or
use of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) by skeletal muscle, or increases energy
requirements so as to exceed ATP production, can cause rhabdomyolysis (Larbi,
1998).
Weitz & Luxenberg is no longer accepting new Crestor cases.
see also:
Tufts Study
Crestor Side Effects Dangers, Tufts-New England Medical Center Study Press Release Crestor side effects: Tufts Study: Twice as likely as similar statins.
Rhabdomyolysis
Crestor Rhabdomyolysis- Crestor increases the risk for Rhabdomyolysis Crestor Risk: Rhabdomyolysis - the breakdown of skeletal muscle
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