Wild-Mushroom Intoxication as a Cause of Rhabdomyolysis

The growing popularity of eating wild mushrooms has led to an increase in the incidence of mushroom poisoning. Most fatalities are due to amatoxin-containing species, which cause fulminant hepatocytolysis, and to cortinarius species, which lead to acute renal damage. A 1996 report described a patient with hepatic failure, encephalopathy, and myopathy related to the ingestion of Amanita phalloides . 1 Since 1992, 12 cases of delayed rhabdomyolysis have occurred in France after meals that included large quantities of the edible wild mushroom Tricholoma equestre . 2 The circumstances of these 12 cases clearly implicate T. equestre as the cause. The mushroom was . . .