Flummoxed by the masquerade: An unusual cause of flu-like symptoms after exercise

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Flummoxed by the masquerade: An unusual cause of flu-like symptoms after exercise

Jonathan Bentley

Jonathan Bentley

Exercise, older woman,
Jasmina’s weights programme caused a dramatic rise in creatine kinase

GP Jonathan Bentley has a week to figure out what’s going on with a normally healthy patient who presents with viral symptoms after increasing the intensity of her exercise programme

Key points, Jasmina’s connective tissue disease predisposed her to muscle inflammation, which flared up out of proportion to the activity she had done – an unusua, Pract Green w Pale Yellow