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Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies and the lung [PDF]

European Respiratory Review, 2015
Idiopathic inflammatory myositis (IIM) is a group of rare connective tissue diseases (CTDs) characterised by muscular and extramuscular signs, in which lung involvement is a challenging issue. Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is the hallmark of pulmonary involvement in IIM, and causes morbidity and mortality, resulting in an estimated excess mortality ...
Lega, Jean-Christophe, Reynaud, Quitterie, Belot, Alexandre, Fabien, Nicole, Durieu, Isabelle, Cottin, Vincent   +5 more
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Study on advances in the association between autoantibodies and clinical phenotypes in idiopathic inflammatory myopathy [PDF]

Zhenduanxue lilun yu shijian, 2022
Myositis specific autoantibodies(MSA) are important for the diagnosis and classification of idiopathic inflammatory myopathy (IIM). It reveales that there is a close relationship between various types of MSA and unique clinical manifestations as well as ...
ZHANG Hao, CHI Huihui, SU Yutong, YANG Chengde
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METABOLIC VS INFLAMMATORY MYOPATHY: DIAGNOSTIC DIFFICULTIES AND ERRORS IN MYOPATHIES – CASE REPORT [PDF]

Romanian Journal of Rheumatology, 2019
Glycogen storage diseases are genetic metabolic disorders of glycogen metabolism. There are more than 12 types and they are grouped based on the enzyme deficiency and the affected tissue.
Andra-Patricia Stanciu, Sinziana Daia-Iliescu, Mircea Diculescu, Ruxandra Ionescu   +3 more
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Epidemiology of the idiopathic inflammatory myopathies

Nature Reviews Rheumatology, 2023
The idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIMs) are a heterogeneous group of systemic autoimmune diseases that affect the skeletal muscles and can also involve the skin, joints, lungs and heart. The epidemiology of IIM is obscured by changing classification criteria and the inherent shortcomings of case identification using healthcare record diagnostic ...
Thomas Khoo, James B. Lilleker, Bernard Yu-Hor Thong, Valérie Leclair, Janine A. Lamb, Hector Chinoy   +5 more
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Malignancy and idiopathic inflammatory myopathies

North American Journal of Medical Sciences, 2013
Association between idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIMs) and malignancy is well known and has been extensively reported in the literature. However, in the recent years, several new studies were published allowing us to better understand the clinical characteristics and pathophysiology of cancer-associated IIMs.
Ungprasert, Patompong, Bethina, Narandra K, Jones, Christine H   +2 more
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From myositis to sarcoidosis: a rare autoimmune continuum

EULAR Rheumatology Open
: Background: Sarcoidosis is a multisystem granulomatous disease that may rarely coexist with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies. The overlap of sarcoidosis and idiopathic inflammatory myopathy is exceptional and poses diagnostic difficulties due to ...
Mert Can Ataca, Semih Gulle
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Juvenile Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathy at a developing Paediatric Rheumatology Clinic in Trinidad and Tobago: a case series

Caribbean Medical Journal, 2023
Objective: Juvenile Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathy (JIIM) is a rare autoimmune disorder with no published data from the English-speaking Caribbean. As such, we seek to produce the first dataset from Trinidad and Tobago on this condition.
Zafir Latchan, Shanice Ali, Patrick Chin-Kong, Haramnauth Dyaanand   +3 more
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Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor–Related Myositis and Associated Triad Overlap Syndrome

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) myositis is a rare but a highly morbid condition, particularly with the ICI myositis triad syndrome of myositis, myocarditis, and myasthenia gravis. We report the clinical characteristics of ICI myositis and all‐cause mortality in these patients.
Selene Rubino, Grant W. Cannon, Brian C. Sauer, Jorge Rojas, Gregory J. Stoddard, Gary A. Kunkel, Jessica A. Walsh, Bryant R. England, Joshua F. Baker, Tawnie J. Braaten   +9 more
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Resistin in idiopathic inflammatory myopathies [PDF]

Arthritis Research & Therapy, 2012
Abstract Introduction The purpose of this study was to evaluate and compare the serum levels and local expression of resistin in patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies to controls, and to determine the relationship between resistin levels, inflammation and disease activity.
Filkova, Maria, Hulejova, Hana, Kuncova, Klara, Plestilova, Lenka, Andrés Cerezo, Lucie, Mann, Herman, Klein, Martin, Zamecnik, Josef, Gay, Steffen, Vencovsky, Jiri, Senolt, Ladislav   +10 more
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Idiopathic inflammatory myopathy: From muscle biopsy to serology

Indian Journal of Rheumatology, 2020
Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIMs) are heterogeneous group of muscle disorders characterized by variable degree of muscle weakness and muscle inflammation. Various classification systems have been proposed for myositis.
Ritu Verma, Vimal Kumar Paliwal
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