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Heroin-induced rhabdomyolysis as a cause of reflex sympathetic dystrophy
1Department of Nuclear Medicine, National Cheng-Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan.
Abstract:
Reflex sympathetic dystrophy is an excessive or abnormal response of the sympathetic nervous system in an extremity to an injury or other condition. The authors describe a 37-year-old man who experienced constant pain and vasomotor instability in both feet after nontraumatic rhabdomyolysis secondary to smoking heroin. Three-phase bone scintigraphy was performed and revealed significantly increased blood-flow, blood-pool, and delayed-phase radioactivity. The follow-up three-phase bone scinitigram showed less radiotracer uptake that was consistent with a good response to calcitonin therapy. Heroin-induced rhabdomyolysis should be added to the list of precipitating conditions that can induce this syndrome.
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