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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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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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Pulmonary arterial hypertension in polymyositis: a case report
Рациональная фармакотерапия в кардиологииPulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) associated with connective tissue diseases is a lifethreatening condition in which elevated pressure in the pulmonary vasculature leads to a marked increase in right heart afterload, causing severe right ventricular ...
A. A. Vedernikov +5 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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Extended Inflammatory Osteitis Pubis With Associated Myositis and Femoral Neuropathy in an Amateur Football Player: A Case Report. [PDF]
Clin Case RepABSTRACT A 42‐year‐old male amateur football player presented with a 17‐day history of progressive groin pain, primarily on the right, radiating to the perineum, associated with limitation of hip motion. Because of proximal weakness and elevated inflammatory markers, polymyositis and an infectious process were initially suspected.
Kolahi S +4 more
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Clinical types of lung disease in polymyositis and dermatomyositis
, 2021 The idiopathic inflammatory myopathies are a group of rare, heterogeneous connective tissue disorders characterized by skeletal muscle inflammation. The four main forms of idiopathic inflammatory myopathies are dermatomyositis, polymyositis, inclusion ...
Liubov A. Ponomareva +2 more
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Polymyositis concomitant with hepatitis B virus infection: Treatment challenges [PDF]
, 2023 Polymyositis is a chronic autoimmune disease that presents with symmetrical progressive proximal muscle weakness. The cause of this disease due to abnormal activation of macrophages that might be associated with systemic diseases such as other autoimmune
Tandiono, Vincent, Ginting, Andi R.
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Clinical Case Reports, 2021 Autoimmune disorders are an important cause of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). We report a case of a patient with steroid‐responsive ARDS that relapsed in 10 months with an initial manifestation of seronegative polymyositis.
Yukihisa Takeda +7 more
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Pregnancy outcomes in dermatomyositis and polymyositis patients [PDF]
, 2015 BackgroundCurrently, there are few studies that describe pregnancy in dermatomyositis/polymyositis patients, and they are largely limited to case reports or studies with few samples.ObjectivesTherefore, we describe the pregnancy in a large sample of ...
de Souza, Fernando Henrique Carlos +3 more
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