PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Alex Gosselt
AU  - Jobien Olijhoek
AU  - Thomas Wierema
TI  - Severe asymptomatic rhabdomyolysis complicating a mycoplasma pneumonia
AID  - 10.1136/bcr-2016-217752
DP  - 2017 Jul 26
TA  - BMJ Case Reports
PG  - bcr-2016-217752
VI  - 2017
4099  - http://casereports.bmj.com/content/2017/bcr-2016-217752.short
4100  - http://casereports.bmj.com/content/2017/bcr-2016-217752.full
AB  - Rhabdomyolysis is a very rare and serious extrapulmonary manifestation of a Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection. We describe a case of a 47-year-old male patient who presented with progressive dyspnoea, hypoxaemia and cough during the last 3 days. He had no relevant muscular complaints but was diagnosed with severe rhabdomyolysis for which he was treated with hyperhydration. Molecular diagnostics confirmed M. pneumoniae as the causative agent and our patient was successfully treated with doxycycline.Only a few cases of rhabdomyolysis complicating a M. pneumoniae infection have been described, mostly in infants. In this case, typical suggestive complaints of rhabdomyolysis were absent suggesting that the complication might be underdiagnosed.