[Rhabdomyolysis associated with cocaine use]

Cocaine is a drug that has been used by humans for 15 centuries. In our environment, the prevalence of alcohol consumption, and emergencies arising from it, has increased over the last 10 years. Cocaine has been used by 2.6% of the Spanish population between 15 and 64 years old at some time in their life, placing it among the most widely consumed illicit drug after cannabis. Cocaine use is associated with multiple complications: neurological, cardiovascular, psychiatry, nephrology, pulmonary and gastrointestinal. The first cases of rhabdomyolysis and kidney failure were found in the medical literature in 1987. Rhabdomyolysis is a potentially lethal clinical syndrome that results from the necrosis of muscle fibres, with the passage of its components into the circulation, and is underdiagnosed in primary care.