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Neutrophil extracellular traps play an important role in the body's defense against pathogens, but over-activated neutrophil extracellular traps may damage normal tissues and participate in the occurrence and development of idiopathic inflammatory ...
Zhang Cen +7 more
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Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies [PDF]
The idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) consist of rare heterogeneous autoimmune disorders that present with marked proximal and symmetric muscle weakness, except for distal and asymmetric weakness in inclusion body myositis. Despite many similarities, the IIM are fairly heterogeneous from the histopathologic and pathogenetic standpoints, and also
Mazen M, Dimachkie +2 more
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Congenital Inflammatory Myopathy
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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Background Immune-mediated necrotizing myopathy (IMNM) is characterized by proximal muscle weakness, elvated serum muscle enzyme levels, myopathic electromyography findings, and necrotic muscle fiber with few inflammatory cell infiltration in muscle ...
Jiali Li +5 more
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Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) in Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathy: A Systematic Review.
Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is a research priority in chronic diseases. We undertook a systematic review (registration #CRD42015024939) to identify, appraise and synthesize the evidence relating to HRQoL in idiopathic inflammatory myopathies ...
Valérie Leclair +4 more
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Polymyositis: clinical investigation in two sisters [PDF]
We present an investigation of a case of polymyositis affecting two sisters of one same parenthood. Their cases have been documented for almost two decades, being investigated by means of a diagnostic protocol which combined clinical findings as well as ...
Margô Gomes de Oliveira Karnikowski +3 more
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Wooden breast (WB) syndrome has emerged as a global myopathy in modern commercial broiler chickens, mainly affecting the pectoralis major muscle. Recent evidence suggests that WB myopathy is a systemic disease, which might be accompanied by other ...
Tong Xing +3 more
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Autoimmune rheumatic diseases (ARDs) are characterized by a pathological triad composed of autoimmunity/inflammation, microangiopathy, and aberrant tissue remodeling.
John D Pauling +2 more
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Statins and muscle – friends or foes? Discussions based on a case report [PDF]
Immune-mediated necrotizing myopathy (IMNM) is a type of autoimmune myopathy characterized by relatively severe proximal weakness, myofiber necrosis with minimal inflammatory cell infiltrate on muscle biopsy, and infrequent extra-muscular involvement ...
Andra Patricia Stanciu +2 more
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Adaptive mitochondrial mechanisms allow mitochondrial resilience and prevent the worsening of fibrosis, while deregulation of these mechanisms promotes the progression from no/minimal‐mild (F0‐F2) fibrosis to advanced fibrosis and cirrhosis (F3‐F4). Abstract Background and Aims Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection causes oxidative stress (OS) and alters ...
Dimitri Loureiro +17 more
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