Manual muscle testing and hand-held dynamometry in people with inflammatory myopathy : an intra- and interrater reliability and validity study [PDF]
, 2018 Manual muscle testing (MMT) and hand-held dynamometry (HHD) are commonly used in people with inflammatory myopathy (IM), but their clinimetric properties have not yet been sufficiently studied.
Baschung Pfister, Pierrette +5 more
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Child: Care, Health and Development, Volume 51, Issue 6, November 2025.ABSTRACT Background Children who have chronic illnesses (CIs) and their siblings often miss school when the child with a CI is hospitalized. Understanding the perspectives of the child with an illness, siblings and parents will provide information about how they keep up with schoolwork, their perceptions of not being in school, or of homeschooling that
Margaret Wazevich +4 more
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Update in juvenile myositis. [PDF]
, 2013 This update on childhood idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIMs) reviews recent progress in the field of translational science and clinical research over the past 12-18 ...
Nistala, K, Wedderburn, LR
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The Efficacy and Safety of Rituximab in Patients with Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathy-Associated Interstitial Lung Disease: Case Series [PDF]
, 2023 Youngeun Jang +2 more
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Diagnosis and treatment of occipital brain lesions in children
Developmental Medicine &Child Neurology, Volume 67, Issue 11, Page 1409-1420, November 2025.Occipital brain lesions in children represent a diagnostic challenge due to the large spectrum of etiologies and overlapping clinical features. This review analyses common and less common causes of occipital brain lesions in children, including malformative, vascular, genetic/metabolic, infectious, inflammatory, and neoplastic conditions.
Luca Bartolini +4 more
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Genetic association study of NF-κB genes in UK Caucasian adult and juvenile onset idiopathic inflammatory myopathy [PDF]
, 2012 Treatment-resistant muscle wasting is an increasingly recognized problem in idiopathic inflammatory myopathy (IIM). TNF-α is thought to induce muscle catabolism via activation of nuclear factor-kappa B (NF-κB). Several genes share homology with the NF-κB
Betteridge, Z +12 more
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Chimeric cells of maternal origin do not appear to be pathogenic in the juvenile idiopathic inflammatory myopathies or muscular dystrophy. [PDF]
, 2015 INTRODUCTION: Microchimeric cells have been studied for over a decade, with conflicting reports on their presence and role in autoimmune and other inflammatory diseases.
Artlett, Carol M +4 more
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The metastasis promoting protein S100A4 is increased in idiopathic inflammatory myopathies [PDF]
, 2017 Objectives. The S100A4 protein is known as a metastasis promoting factor; however, its involvement in non-malignant diseases such as RA and psoriasis has been recently described.
Andrés Cerezo, Lucie +10 more
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POS0490 USEFULNESS OF MHC-II IMMUNO-STAINING ON MUSCLE BIOPSIES IN IDIOPATHIC INFLAMMATORY MYOPATHIES [PDF]
, 2022 M Robert +8 more
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ACR Open Rheumatology, Volume 7, Issue 10, October 2025.Objective Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy is being investigated to treat individuals with autoimmune diseases. Data regarding the safety of CAR T cell therapy in this population are limited. We aimed to assess whether pre‐existing autoimmune disease was associated with an increase in major toxicity or hospital length of stay (LOS) among ...
Gregory J. Challener +7 more
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