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Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies [PDF]

Nature Reviews Disease Primers, 2021
Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM), also known as myositis, are a heterogeneous group of autoimmune disorders with varying clinical manifestations, treatment responses and prognoses. Muscle weakness is usually the classical clinical manifestation but other organs can be affected, including the skin, joints, lungs, heart and gastrointestinal tract,
Ingrid E. Lundberg, Manabu Fujimoto, Jiri Vencovsky, Rohit Aggarwal, Marie Holmqvist, Lisa Christopher-Stine, Andrew L. Mammen, Frederick W. Miller   +7 more
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The value of myositis-specific autoantibodies in the diagnosis of idiopathic inflammatory myopathy and tumor risk prediction [PDF]

Journal of International Medical Research
Objective To investigate the value of myositis-specific autoantibodies in the diagnosis of idiopathic inflammatory myopathy and tumor risk prediction in patients with clinically suspected idiopathic inflammatory myopathy. Methods This retrospective study
Lili Shi, Rong Min, Yanyan Wu, Jiahui Liu, Xia Liu, Peichang Wang   +5 more
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Congenital Inflammatory Myopathy

Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 1990
Three patients with congenital inflammatory myopathy are reported from the Montreal Children's Hospital and Neurological Institute McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Seven additional cases are reviewed from the literature.
J Gordon Millichap
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Targeted Therapy for Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathy [PDF]

Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle
Background Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) are a heterogeneous group of autoimmune disorders characterized by chronic muscle inflammation and significant extramuscular involvement.
Ruijie Wang, Wei Lin, Qibing Xie, Geng Yin   +3 more
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Outcome of COVID-19 in patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathy during the Omicron wave in China: A longitudinal observational study. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
ObjectiveThe coronavirus disease pandemic brought unknown challenges to patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathy, who are often heavily immunosuppressed and have comorbidities.
Ying Li, Xiaolan Tian, Chao Sun, Yangyang Wei, Wei Jiang, Linrong He, Chunjia Li, Lu Zhang, Guochun Wang, Xin Lu   +9 more
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Amyloid myopathy mimicked with idiopathic inflammatory myopathy diagnosed using Congo red staining: a case report [PDF]

BMC Neurology
Amyloid myopathy often occurs in the context of systemic amyloidosis, as a rare manifestation of “light chain” (AL) amyloidosis, accounting for 1% of its incidence.
Xingyu Han, Mohammadreza Kosari, Li Xu, Yue Li, Meng-ge Yang, Huajie Gao, Huizhen Ge, Bitao Bu, Suqiong Ji   +8 more
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Association of clinical features and myositis-specific antibodies in idiopathic inflammatory myopathy: a retrospective study from southern China. [PDF]

Front Immunol
Li C, Zheng Y, Zhang Y, Ye Y, Zhang H, Yang N, Wang S.   +6 more
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A Childhood Inflammatory Myopathy with Cytochrome Oxidase Deficiency: Which Came First, the Chicken or the Egg?

Journal of Behçet Uz Children's Hospital, 2023
Inflammatory myopathies are autoimmune disorders rarely seen in childhood. Normally high-dose corticosteroid is the current treatment for inflammatory myopathies. For a specific subgroup of patients with inflammatory myopathy with cytochrome oxidase (COX)
Gülden Diniz, Önder Yavaşcan, Ümit Başak Şarkış, Zübeyde Yıldırım, Caner Alparslan, Can Öztürk, Afig Berdeli   +6 more
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Prominent Asymmetric Muscle Weakness and Atrophy in Seronegative Immune-Mediated Necrotizing Myopathy

Diagnostics, 2021
Immune-mediated necrotizing myopathy, a new subgroup of inflammatory myopathies, usually begins with subacute onset of symmetrical proximal muscle weakness.
Sunha Park, Dae-Hyun Jang, Jae-Min Kim, Nara Yoon   +3 more
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Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies [PDF]

Seminars in Neurology, 2009
The idiopathic inflammatory myopathies are a group of rare disorders including polymyositis (PM), dermatomyositis (DM), and autoimmune necrotizing myopathies (NMs). The idiopathic inflammatory myopathies share many similarities. They present acutely, subacutely, or chronically with marked proximal and symmetric muscle weakness, except for associated ...
Mazen M, Dimachkie, Richard J, Barohn
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