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It's usually caused by crush injury, but if you're enough of a knucklehead, you can give it to yourself in the gym too.

Thanks for the link, I really appreciate that.

It's kidney failure, not liver failure. I've seen several cases of it as an ER nurse. It's fairly common for people running marathons to go in to Rhabdo afterwards, but they usually just orally rehydrate and they're fine. (Flush the system out). When people run in to problems is when they don't hydrate enough.

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