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Crohn's disease is associated with complications in multiple organs. However, there are very few reported cases of patients with Crohn's disease with muscle symptoms and/or high serum creatine phospho-kinase (CPK) levels. We report here a patient with Crohn's disease who experienced skeletal muscle damage with extremely high serum CPK level during treatment with an elemental diet. The non-parenteral administration of large amounts of carbohydrate and limited glycogen degradation capability may be a possible causative mechanism for this elemental diet-induced muscle damage.
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Received Feb. 12, 1997; accepted June 27, 1997
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Waki, S., Kawanami, C., Kanda, F. et al. Severe muscle damage induced by high carbohydrate intake from elemental diet in a patient with Crohn's disease. J Gastroenterol 33, 121–124 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s005350050056
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s005350050056