Case Report: When muscle edema is not a myositis flare: Legionella pneumonia complicated by rhabdomyolysis and acute kidney injury in long-standing polymyositis
Legionella pneumophila is an important cause of severe community-acquired pneumonia and can produce extrapulmonary manifestations that obscure the primary diagnosis. Diagnostic error is especially likely in patients with established idiopathic inflammatory myopathy, because fever, myalgia, weakness, creatine kinase...