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Exertional Rhabdomyolysis: What you don’t diagnose may kill a patient. Prof Francis O’Connor
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Exertional Rhabdomyolysis: What you don’t diagnose may kill a patient. Prof Francis O’Connor
FromBJSM Podcast
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Length:
18 minutes
Released:
May 5, 2017
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Podcast episode
Description
What is rhabdomyolysis?
Can it sneak under a clincian’s radar?
What the key clinical features?
When to be alert for rhabdomyolysis
Problems when coaches are too aggressive with a new load
Two cases – clinical scenarios
When sickle cell trait complicates matters
Which athlete with sickle cell trait is at increased risk?
Can clinicians identify the athlete with sickle cell trait who is at risk of death?
To screen or not to screen. Ethics and science.
Who is ready to return to play?
Who is at risk of recurrence? It applies to athletes and war fighters.
Role of genetics – the genetic markers that clinicians can test for in a tertiary care centre
Links to a previous podcast by Fran O’Connor – Exertional leg pain http://ow.ly/j9IU30bs1oe
Links to papers:
Sickle Cell paper in Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=harmon+and+Med+Sci+Sports+Exerc
Pathophysiology of exertional death associated with sickle cell trait: can we make a parallel with vaso-occlusion mechanisms in sickle cell disease?
Connes P, Harmon KG, Bergeron MF.
http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/47/4/190.long
Sickle cell trait associated with a RR of death of 37 times in National Collegiate Athletic Association football athletes: a database with 2 million athlete-years as the denominator.
Harmon KG, Drezner JA, Klossner D, Asif IM.
http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/46/5/325.long
To screen or not to screen for sickle cell trait in American football?
Harmon KG, Drezner JA, Casa DJ.
http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/46/3/158.long
Return to Physical Activity After Exertional Rhabdomyolysis
O'Connor FG; Brennan FH, et al.
http://journals.lww.com/acsm-csmr/Fulltext/2008/11000/Return_to_Physical_Activity_After_Exertional.8.aspx
Can it sneak under a clincian’s radar?
What the key clinical features?
When to be alert for rhabdomyolysis
Problems when coaches are too aggressive with a new load
Two cases – clinical scenarios
When sickle cell trait complicates matters
Which athlete with sickle cell trait is at increased risk?
Can clinicians identify the athlete with sickle cell trait who is at risk of death?
To screen or not to screen. Ethics and science.
Who is ready to return to play?
Who is at risk of recurrence? It applies to athletes and war fighters.
Role of genetics – the genetic markers that clinicians can test for in a tertiary care centre
Links to a previous podcast by Fran O’Connor – Exertional leg pain http://ow.ly/j9IU30bs1oe
Links to papers:
Sickle Cell paper in Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=harmon+and+Med+Sci+Sports+Exerc
Pathophysiology of exertional death associated with sickle cell trait: can we make a parallel with vaso-occlusion mechanisms in sickle cell disease?
Connes P, Harmon KG, Bergeron MF.
http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/47/4/190.long
Sickle cell trait associated with a RR of death of 37 times in National Collegiate Athletic Association football athletes: a database with 2 million athlete-years as the denominator.
Harmon KG, Drezner JA, Klossner D, Asif IM.
http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/46/5/325.long
To screen or not to screen for sickle cell trait in American football?
Harmon KG, Drezner JA, Casa DJ.
http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/46/3/158.long
Return to Physical Activity After Exertional Rhabdomyolysis
O'Connor FG; Brennan FH, et al.
http://journals.lww.com/acsm-csmr/Fulltext/2008/11000/Return_to_Physical_Activity_After_Exertional.8.aspx
Released:
May 5, 2017
Format:
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