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Sameer Chaudhari1, Kashmira Wankhedkar, Beata Popis-Matejak
11Department of Cardiology, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, Newark, NJ; and 2Department of Internal Medicine, Metropolitan Hospital Center, New York, NY.
American Journal of Therapeutics
|March 19, 2015
Abstract:
Acute renal failure from rhabdomyolysis is a well-established clinical entity; however, rhabdomyolysis exclusively caused by the ingestion of methadone requiring hemodialysis is very uncommon. With a similar mechanism to opiates, methadone can cause rhabdomyolysis and further consequences. Given the increasing use of methadone as a therapy for opiate dependence, clinicians prescribing this medication should be aware of this life-threatening complication.