Rippling muscle disease

Rippling muscle disease is a rare, genetic, neuromuscular disorder characterized by muscle hyperirritability triggered by stretch, percussion or movement. Patients present wave-like, electrically-silent muscle contractions (rippling), muscle mounding, painful muscle stiffness and muscle hypertrophy, usually with elevated serum creatine kinase.

Hypercholesterolemia

An increased concentration of cholesterol in the blood.


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PMID (PMCID)
16688722
MALE Middle Aged
Sporadic rippling muscle disease unmasked by simvastatin.
Baker SK, Tarnopolsky MA.
Muscle Nerve. 2006;34(4):478-81.
We report a 53-year-old-man who developed rippling muscle disease (RMD) 2 months after starting simvastatin therapy for hypercholesterolemia.