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case_images: Muscle biopsy showing inflammation and neutrophilic infiltration with muscle necrosis consistent with rhabdomyolysis. Courtesy of Department of Pathology, Saint Francis Medical Center.
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case_images: Patient also received a muscle biopsy that revealed inflammation and muscle necrosis without any evidence of perifascicular atrophy or fibrosis or glycogen deposition (Fig. 1), thus ruling out inflammatory myopathies, collagen vascular diseases, and glycogen storage diseases as a cause of his rhabdomyolysis.
case_images: Figure depicting the ingredients of energy drink 'NEON VOLT'.
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case_images: At this time, the contents of the energy drink 'NEON VOLT' were reviewed (Fig. 2), and it was seen to have excessive quantities of caffeine (five times as much as a regular cup of coffee), taurine, B-alanine, which could possibly be myotoxic.