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Diagnostic Value of Muscle Ultrasound for Myopathies and Myositis
Current Rheumatology Reports, 2020 The purpose of this review is to critically discuss the use of ultrasound in the evaluation of muscle disorders with a particular focus on the emerging use in inflammatory myopathies.
J. Albayda, N. van Alfen
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Rhabdomyolysis in an HIV cohort: epidemiology, causes and outcomes. [PDF]
, 2017 BackgroundThe Literature on rhabdomyolysis in the HIV-positive population is sparse and limited. We aimed to explore the incidence, patient characteristics, etiologies and outcomes of rhabdomyolysis in a cohort of HIV-positive patients identified through
Atta, Mohamed G +6 more
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Current Infectious Disease Reports, 2010 Infectious myositis is defined as an infection of a skeletal muscle. Infectious myositis is most commonly caused by bacteria; however, a variety of viral, parasitic, and fungal agents may also cause myositis. The pathogenesis of nonbacterial infectious myositis is via direct or hematogenous infection of the musculature or immune mechanisms.
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Orbital Myositis: A Comprehensive Review and Reclassification
Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 2020 Purpose: Orbital myositis occurs in typical and atypical forms. This review summarizes and updates the current state of knowledge of all forms of inflammation affecting extraocular muscle, excluding thyroid-associated orbitopathy.
A. McNab
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Dermatomyositis and Immune-Mediated Necrotizing Myopathies: A Window on Autoimmunity and Cancer
Frontiers in Immunology, 2017 Autoimmune myopathies (myositides) are strongly associated with malignancy. The link between myositis and cancer, originally noticed by Bohan and Peter in their classification in 1975 (1), has been evidenced by large population-based cohort studies and a
Audrey Aussy +3 more
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Cancer Treatment and Research Communications, 2020 Background: Lung cancer is the second most common cancer in both men and women and the leading cause of cancer death worldwide. The development of novel tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) represented a paradigm shift in the management of lung cancer and ...
Pawel Parafianowicz +4 more
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Diabetic Muscle Infarction [PDF]
, 2020 A 58-year-old male with past medical history of diabetes mellitus presented with pain to the bilateral groin for six weeks. Magnetic resonance imaging of the patient’s lower extremities revealed acute myoedema, and he was diagnosed with myositis ...
Ahmed, Sophia, Fairley, Romeo
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Arthritis Research & TherapyObjective Anti-3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A reductase (HMGCR) autoantibodies are one of the myositis-specific antibodies which is associated with immune-mediated necrotizing myopathy (IMNM).
Hongxia Yang +7 more
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Focal Myositis in paediatric age. [PDF]
, 2015 BACKGROUND: Focal Myositis is a rare pseudotumor of unknown aetiology that is often difficult to diagnose and treat. Typically afflicting people in adulthood, it has occasionally been reported also among children.
Alaggio, Rita, Corradin, M, Gigante, C
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SNUPN‐Related Muscular Dystrophy: Novel Phenotypic, Pathological and Functional Protein Insights
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective SNUPN‐related muscular dystrophy or LGMDR29 is a new entity that covers from a congenital or childhood onset pure muscular dystrophy to more complex phenotypes combining neurodevelopmental features, cataracts, or spinocerebellar ataxia. So far, 12 different variants have been described.
Nuria Muelas +18 more
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