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An electrophysiological investigation of skeletal muscles in polymyositis
Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, 1976 An electrophysiological study has been made of the extensor digitorum brevis, thenar and hypothenar muscles in 25 patients with chronic and acute polymyositis.
R. E. P. Sica +3 more
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Cardiac involvement in polymyositis and dermatomyositis: diagnostic approaches.
Rheumatology, 2023 Polymyositis (PM) and dermatomyositis (DM) are rare idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM). Myocardial involvement in patients with IIM is an unfavorable prognostic factor and one of the most common cause of mortality in this group of patients.
Agnieszka Trybuch, Beata Tarnacka
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A Curious Case of Proximal Muscle Weakness with Eosinophilic Polymyositis [PDF]
Case Reports in Rheumatology, 2016 Eosinophilic polymyositis (EPM) is part of a rare disorder, eosinophilic myopathies (EM), which is a form of polymyositis characterized by the presence of eosinophils in muscle biopsy sections and occasionally blood eosinophilia.
Ciel Harris +7 more
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Scientific Reports, 2023 Dermatomyositis and polymyositis are rare, idiopathic inflammatory myopathies. Interstitial lung disease is one of the most common and potentially severe extra-muscular manifestations of dermatomyositis and polymyositis and is strongly linked to poor ...
Qingqing Hu +5 more
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Clinics, 2013 OBJECTIVE: To analyze the prevalence of myositis-specific and myositis-associated autoantibodies and their clinical correlations in a large series of patients with dermatomyositis/polymyositis.
Fernando Henrique Carlos De Souza +1 more
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Acute Onset Polymyositis after Prolactinoma Extirpation [PDF]
Case Reports in Rheumatology, 2014 Hyperprolactinemia has been related to autoimmune diseases. Herein, we describe a case of a female with a prolactin producer pituitary macroadenoma who developed severe polymyositis one month after its removal. The patient had very high levels of CPK and
Juan Jakez-Ocampo +2 more
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Primary Sjögren’s syndrome with polymyositis, a rare amalgamation
Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation, 2018 Sjögren’s syndrome is characterized by diminished lacrimal and salivary gland secretory function. This disorder is not strictly confined to the exocrine glands and its manifestations may extend to extraglandular sites, such as the lungs, kidneys ...
Harpreet Singh +3 more
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BMC Cardiovascular Disorders, 2021 Background Anti-Ku is a rare antibody which can be positive in some rheumatic diseases and it might be related to cardiac involvement. Polymyositis is an inflammatory myopathy, and its cardiac involvement seldom presents as myopericarditis and anti-Ku ...
Weiping Tan +4 more
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Case of Polymyositis Associated with Celiac Disease: A Case Report
Pakistan Armed Forces Medical Journal, 2023 Polymyositis is an important subtype of idiopathic inflammatory myopathies characterized by muscle inflammation andweakness, often associated with other systemic diseases and malignancies.
Abdul Rehman Azeem +4 more
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Rheumatology, 2022 Introduction Muscle enzymes are an indicator of ongoing muscle damage and disease activity in patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathy. Although platelet-related parameters have been shown to be useful as markers of disease activity in autoimmune ...
Gokhan Sargin +3 more
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