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The Prevalence of Various Autoimmune Comorbidities in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease [PDF]

Epidemiologia
Introduction: Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are at increased risk of developing other autoimmune disorders due to possible shared genetic, environmental, and immunological mechanisms.
Bipneet Singh, Shivam Kalra, Tejasvini Khanna, Isha Kohli, Vikash Kumar, Aalam Sohal, Divyesh Sejpal   +6 more
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Chest pain in a mid-aged woman, not simply myopericarditis: a case report of anti-Ku positive polymyositis

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, Bin Dong, Jincui Gu, Yang Peng, Ruicong Xue   +4 more
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Characteristics and risk of interstitial lung disease in dermatomyositis and polymyositis: a retrospective cohort study in Japan

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, Kuan-Chih Huang, Choo Hua Goh, Yumi Tsuchiya, Yanfang Liu, Hong Qiu   +5 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, Maira Aleem, Nadeem Azam, Roshaan Tahir, Ali Akhtar   +4 more
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The myokine GDF-15 is a potential biomarker for myositis and associates with the protein aggregates of sporadic inclusion body myositis. [PDF]

, 2020
Background: The cytokine growth differentiation factor-15 (GDF-15) has been associated with inflammatory and mitochondrial disease, warranting exploration of its expression in myositis patients.
De Bleecker, Jan, De Paepe, Boel, Verhamme, Fien   +2 more
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The relationship between platelet distribution width and disease activity in patients with polymyositis

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, Ceren Demir, Songül Cildag, Taskin Senturk   +3 more
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Dysferlinopathy misdiagnosed with juvenile polymyositis in the pre-symptomatic stage of hyperCKemia: a case report and literature review

BMC Medical Genomics, 2022
Background Dysferlinopathy encompasses a group of rare muscular dystrophies caused by recessive mutations in the DYSF gene. The phenotype ranges from asymptomatic elevated serum creatine kinase (hyperCKemia) to selective and progressive involvement of ...
Cecilia Contreras-Cubas, Francisco Barajas-Olmos, Maria Inés Frayre-Martínez, Georgina Siordia-Reyes, Claudia C. Guízar-Sánchez, Humberto García-Ortiz, Lorena Orozco, Vicente Baca   +7 more
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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, Olga P. Sanz, Nidia Aguilera, A. Colombi   +3 more
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Predictors of survival in a cohort of patients with polymyositis and dermatomyositis: effect of corticosteroids, methotrexate and azathioprine [PDF]

, 2012
Introduction: The idiopathic inflammatory myopathies are rare diseases for which data regarding the natural history, response to therapies and factors affecting mortality are needed.
Crofford, Leslie J., MacDonald, Paul M., Phillips, Kristine, Schiopu, Elena, Somers, Emily C.   +4 more
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Diffuse alveolar hemorrhage, a rare presentation of polymyositis

Respiratory Medicine Case Reports, 2020
Background: Diffuse alveolar hemorrhage is a medical emergency caused by persistent and recurrent pulmonary hemorrhage [1]. It is an uncommon presentation of polymyositis.
Sharoon Samuel, Brent Brown, Nita Mason, Tony Abdo   +3 more
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