Clinical Features of and Risk Factors for Rhabdomyolysis Among Adult Patients with Dengue Virus Infection

Shi-Yu Huang Department of Emergency Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Department of Pediatric, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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Ing-Kit Lee Department of Emergency Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Department of Pediatric, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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Jien-Wei Liu Department of Emergency Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Department of Pediatric, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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Chia-Te Kung Department of Emergency Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Department of Pediatric, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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Lin Wang Department of Emergency Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Department of Pediatric, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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Among 1,076 dengue patients, 9 patients with rhabdomyolysis and 1,067 patients without rhabdomyolysis (controls) were retrospectively analyzed. Of nine patients with rhabdomyolysis, the most commonly reported symptom other than fever was myalgia; dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) was found in seven cases, and acute kidney injury was found in six cases. Furthermore, one (11.1%) patient died. The median duration from hospital admission to rhabdomyolysis diagnosis was 3 days. Patients with rhabdomyolysis had higher age, proportion of men, prevalence of hypertension, frequency of myalgia, and incidences of DHF, pleural effusion, and acute kidney injury than controls. Multivariate analysis showed that hypertension (odds ratio [OR] = 14.270), myalgia (OR = 20.377), and acute kidney injury (OR = 65.547) were independent risk factors for rhabdomyolysis. Comparison of cytokine/chemokine concentrations in 101 DHF patients, including those with (N = 4) and without (N = 97) rhabdomyolysis, showed that interleukin-6 and tumor necrosis factor-α levels were significantly increased in the former.

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* Address correspondence to Ing-Kit Lee, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung 833, Taiwan. E-mail: leee@cgmh.org.tw

Financial support: This work was partly supported by Grant NSC 100-2314-B-182-002-MY3 from the National Science Council, Executive Yuan, Taiwan, Republic of China.

Authors' addresses: Shi-Yu Huang and Chia-Te Kung, Department of Emergency Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, E-mails: sarawah@ms28.hinet.net and g00308@cgmh.org.tw. Ing-Kit Lee and Jien-Wei Liu, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, E-mails: leee@cgmh.org.tw and jwliu@cgmh.org.tw. Lin Wang, Department of Pediatrics, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, E-mail: ling6422@yahoo.com.tw2.

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