You are here

Article Text

Article menu
Download PDFPDF
Case Report
Anabolic steroid accelerated multicompartment syndrome following trauma
  1. H Bahia1,
  2. A Platt1,
  3. N B Hart1,
  4. P Baguley2
  1. 1Department of Plastic Surgery, Kingston General Hospital, Beverley Road, Hull, United Kingdom
  2. 2Department of Plastic Surgery, Middlesborough Hospital, Middlesborough, United Kingdom
  1. Correspondence to: Mr H Bahia, Kingston General Hospital, Beverley Road, Hull HU3 1UR, United Kingdom email: H.Bahia{at}medschool.hull.ac.uk

Abstract

The case is reported of a 23 year old male body builder who was involved in a road traffic accident after taking anabolic steroids. The resulting trauma caused a severe life threatening acute multicompartment syndrome resulting in the need for urgent multiple fasciotomies.

  • anabolic steroids
  • body builder
  • trauma
  • multicompartment syndrome

https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsm.34.4.308

Statistics from Altmetric.com

    Request Permissions

    If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

    View Full Text

    Footnotes